Strong G770G770Hἀσθενέω

be weak: ill

One of the 2 senses of Strong G770

Transliteration
astheneō
Pronunciation
as-then-eh'-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G772; to be feeble (in any sense): - be diseased impotent folk (man) (be) sick (be be made) weak.

Detailed definition

ἀσθενέω, -ῶ
( ἀσθενής) [in LXX chiefly for כָּשַׁל;]
to be weak, feeble: Act.20:35, Rom.8:3, 2Co.11:21 12:10 13:4 13:9; with dative, πίστει (Cremer, 527), Rom.4:19 14:1; same implied, Rom.14:2, 21, 1Co.8:11-12, 2Co.11:29; εἰς, 2Co.13:3. Specif., of bodily debility, to be sick: Mat.25:36, 39, Luk.4:40, Jhn.4:46 5:3, 7 5:13 11:1-3, 6 Act.9:37, Php.2:26-27, 2Ti.4:20, Jas.5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, the sick: Mat.10:8 (MM, see word), Mrk.6:56, Luk.9:2, Act.19:12.†
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In the Bible

Strong G770H appears in 18 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • be8
  • sick7
  • diseased1
  • folk1
  • man1

First verses

  1. Matthew 10:8
    Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
  2. Matthew 25:36
    Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
  3. Mark 6:56
    And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.
  4. Luke 4:40
    Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
  5. John 4:46
    So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
  6. John 5:3
    In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
  7. John 5:7
    The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
  8. John 6:2
    And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.
  9. John 11:1
    Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
  10. John 11:2
    (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
  11. John 11:3
    Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
  12. John 11:6
    When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
  13. Acts 9:37
    And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
  14. Acts 19:12
    So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
  15. Philippians 2:26
    For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
  16. Philippians 2:27
    For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
  17. 2 Timothy 4:20
    Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
  18. James 5:14
    Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
Included with: ἀσθέν-εια, ἡ,
want of strength, weakness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3, etc.: in _plural_, ἰσχύες καὶ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 618d)]; especially feebleness, sickliness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.135; ἀ. τοῦ γήρως 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.3.2, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 330e; σωμάτων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.36, etc.)]
2 disease, sickness, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.49 (_plural_), “OGI” 244.11 (Daphne, 2nd c.BC), etc.)]; δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν[NT (NT.Gal.4.13.)]
3 ἀ. βίου poverty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.47, 8.51.)]
4 in moral sense, feebleness, weakness, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 854a, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1150b19; τοῦ ἀκροατοῦ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1419a18.—Rare in poetry, as 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 269. -έω,)] to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη to be weak in limb, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 228; τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Lysis” 209e)]; ἀ. ἀσθένειαν [NT+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Chrm.” 155b: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 274, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.47, NT.Matt.10.8, etc.)]; ἠσθένησε he fell sick, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 1.13; ἀσθενέων)]sick man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 12 (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. says that μαλακίζεσθχι is used of women))]; ἠσθενηκότα[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 31.13.7.)]
2 to be needy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 636)]; ἠσθενηκότες, of those unable to pay taxes, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“PTeb.” 188 (1st c.BC).)]
3 with infinitive, to be too weak to do a thing, not to be able.., [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 2.15.5; εἰς τὸ θεωρεῖν 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.8.4.)]
4 decline, ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν[LXX (LXX.Judg.19.9.)]