Strong's Lexicon
G770 — ἀσθενέω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G770 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἀσθενέω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G772 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 33 |
| Transliteration: | astheneo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | as-then-eh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to be feeble (in any sense) |
| KJV Renderings: | be diseased, impotent folk (man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀσθενέω, ἀσθενῶ; imperfect ἠσθενουν; perfect ἠσθένηκα (2Co 11:21 L T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἠσθένησα; (ἀσθενής); (from Euripides down); to be weak, feeble; universally, to be without strength, powerless: Rom 8:3; rhetorically, of one who purposely abstains from the use of his strength, 2Co 13:4; and of one wire has no occasion to prove his strength, 2Co 13:9; contextually, to be unable to wield and hold sway over others, 2Co 11:21; by oxymoron, ὅταν ἀσθενῶ, τότε δυνατός εἰμί when I am weak in human strength, then am I strong in strength divine, 2Co 12:10; εἰς τινα, to be weak toward one, 2Co 13:3; with a dative of the respect added: πίστει, to be weak in faith, Rom 4:19; πίστει, to be doubtful about things lawful and unlawful to a Christian, Rom 14:1; simple ἀσθένειν with the same idea suggested, Rom 14:2; Rom 14:21 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); 1Co 8:9 Rec., 11f; τίς ἀσθενεῖ, καί οὐκ ἀσθενῶ; who is weak (in his feelings and conviction about things lawful), and I am not filled with a compassionate sense of the same weakness? 2Co 11:29. contextually, to be weak in means, needy, poor: Act 20:35 (so (Aristophanes pax 636); Euripides, in Stobaeus, 145 vol. 2:168, Gaisf. edition), cf. DeWette (more fully Hackett, per contra Meyer) at the passage Specially of debility in health: with νόσοις added, Luk 4:40; simply, to be feeble, sick: Luk 7:10 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Mat 25:36; Mat 25:39 L text T Tr WH; Joh 4:46; Joh 11:1-3; Joh 11:6; Act 9:37; Php 2:26; 2Ti 4:20; Jas 5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, and ἀσθενοῦντες, the sick, sick folks: Mat 10:8; Mar 6:56; Luk 9:2 Rec.; Joh 5:3; Joh 5:7; Joh 5:13 Tdf.; ; Act 19:12.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἀσθενέω (be diseased)
Matthew 10:8
- KJV: Heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead cast out devils freely ye have received freely give
- GK: ασθενούντας θεραπεύετε νεκρούς εγείρετε λεπρούς καθαρίζετε δαιμόνια εκβάλλετε δωρεάν ελάβετε δωρεάν δότε
Matthew 25:36
- KJV: Naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me
- GK: γυμνός και περιεβάλετέ με ησθένησα και επεσκέψασθέ με εν φυλακή ήμην και ήλθετε προς με
Mark 6:56
- KJV: 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
- GK: και όπου αν εισεπορεύετο εις κώμας η πόλεις η αγρούς εν ταις αγοραίς ετίθουν τους ασθενούντας και παρεκάλουν αυτόν ίνα καν του κρασπέδου του ιματίου αυτού άψωνται και όσοι αν ήπτοντο αυτού εσώζοντο
Luke 4:40
- KJV: Now when the sun was setting all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him and he laid his hands every one of them and healed them
- GK: δύνοντος δε του ηλίου πάντες όσοι είχον ασθενούντας νόσοις ποικίλαις ήγαγον αυτούς προς αυτόν ο δε ενί εκάστω αυτών τας χείρας επιθείς εθεράπευσεν αυτούς
Luke 7:10
- KJV: And they that were sent returning to the house found the servant whole that had been sick
- GK: και υποστρέψαντες οι πεμφθέντες εις τον οίκον εύρον τον ασθενούντα δούλον υγιαίνοντα
Luke 9:2
- KJV: And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick
- GK: και απέστειλεν αυτούς κηρύσσειν την βασιλείαν του θεού και ιάσθαι τους ασθενούντας
John 4:46
- KJV: 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
- GK: ήλθεν ουν ο Ιησούς πάλιν εις την Κανά της Γαλιλαίας όπου εποίησε το ύδωρ οίνον και ην τις βασιλικός ου ο υιός ησθένει εν Καπερναούμ
John 5:3
- KJV: In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blind halt withered waiting for the moving of the water
- GK: εν ταύταις κατέκειτο πλήθος πολύ των ασθενούντων τυφλών χωλών ξηρών εκδεχομένων την του ύδατος κίνησιν
John 5:7
- KJV: 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
- GK: απεκρίθη αυτώ ο ασθενών κύριε άνθρωπον ουκ έχω ίνα όταν ταραχθή του ύδωρ βάλη με εις την κολυμβήθραν εν ω δε έρχομαι εγώ άλλος προ εμού καταβαίνει
John 6:2
- KJV: And a great multitude followed him because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased
- GK: και ηκολούθει αυτώ όχλος πολύς ότι εώρων αυτού τα σημεία α εποίει επί των ασθενούντων
John 11:1
- KJV: Now a certain was sick Lazarus of Bethany the town of Mary and her sister Martha
- GK: ην δε τις ασθενών Λάζαρος από Βηθανίας εκ της κώμης Μαρίας και Μάρθας της αδελφής αυτής
John 11:2
- KJV: It was Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick
- GK: ην δε Μαρια η αλείψασα τον κύριον μύρω και εκμάξασα τους πόδας αυτού ταις θριξίν αυτής ης ο αδελφός Λάζαρος ησθένει
John 11:3
- KJV: Therefore his sisters sent unto him saying Lord behold he whom thou lovest is sick
- GK: απέστειλαν ούν αι αδελφαί προς αυτόν λέγουσαι κύριε ίδε ον φιλείς ασθενεί
John 11:6
- KJV: When he had heard therefore that he was sick he abode two days still in the same place where he was
- GK: ως ουν ήκουσεν ότι ασθενεί τότε μεν έμεινεν εν ω ην τόπω δύο ημέρας
Acts 9:37
- KJV: 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
- GK: εγένετο δε εν ταις ημέραις εκείναις ασθενήσασαν αυτήν αποθανείν λούσαντες δε αυτήν έθηκαν εν υπερώω
Acts 19:12
- KJV: 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
- GK: ώστε και επί τους ασθενούντας επιφέρεσθαι από του χρωτός αυτού σουδάρια η σιμικίνθια και απαλλάσσεσθαι απ΄ αυτών τας νόσους τα τε πνεύματα τα πονηρά εξέρχεσθαι απ΄ αυτών
Acts 20:35
- KJV: I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive
- GK: πάντα υπέδειξα υμίν ότι ούτω κοπιώντας δει αντιλαμβάνεσθαι των ασθενούντων μνημονεύειν τε των λόγων του κυρίου Ιησού ότι αυτός είπε μακάριόν εστι διδόναι μάλλον η λαμβάνειν
Romans 4:19
- KJV: And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead about an hundred years old neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb
- GK: και μη ασθενήσας τη πίστει ου κατενόησε το εαυτού σώμα ήδη νενεκρωμένον εκατονταέτης που υπάρχων και την νέκρωσιν της μήτρας Σάρρας
Romans 8:3
- KJV: For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh
- GK: το γαρ αδύνατον του νόμου εν ω ησθένει διά της σαρκός ο θεός τον εαυτού υιόν πέμψας εν ομοιώματι σαρκός αμαρτίας και περί αμαρτίας κατέκρινε την αμαρτίαν εν τη σαρκί
Romans 14:1
- KJV: Him that is weak in the faith receive ye not to doubtful disputations
- GK: τον δε ασθενούντα τη πίστει προσλαμβάνεσθε μη εις διακρίσεις διαλογισμών
Romans 14:2
- KJV: For one believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs
- GK: ος μεν πιστεύει φαγείν πάντα ο δε ασθενών λάχανα εσθίει
Romans 14:21
- KJV: good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak
- GK: καλόν το μη φαγείν κρέα μηδέ πιείν οίνον μηδέ εν ω ο αδελφός σου προσκόπτει η σκανδαλίζεται η ασθενεί
1 Corinthians 8:9
- KJV: But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak
- GK: βλέπετε δε μήπως η εξουσία υμών αύτη πρόσκομμα γένηται τοις ασθενούσιν
1 Corinthians 8:11
- KJV: And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish for whom Christ died
- GK: και απολείται ο ασθενών αδελφός επί τη ση γνώσει δι΄ ον χριστός απέθανεν
1 Corinthians 8:12
- KJV: But when ye sin so against the brethren and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ
- GK: ούτω δε αμαρτάνοντες εις τους αδελφούς και τύπτοντες αυτών την συνείδησιν ασθενούσαν εις χριστόν αμαρτάνετε
2 Corinthians 11:21
- KJV: I speak as concerning reproach as though we had been weak Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold I speak foolishly I am bold also
- GK: κατά ατιμίαν λέγω ως ότι ημείς ησθενήσαμεν εν ω δ΄ αν τις τολμά εν αφροσύνη λέγω τολμώ καγώ
2 Corinthians 11:29
- KJV: Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn not
- GK: τις ασθενεί και ουκ ασθενώ τις σκανδαλίζεται και ουκ εγώ πυρούμαι
2 Corinthians 12:10
- KJV: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ’s sake for when I am weak then am I strong
- GK: διό ευδοκώ εν ασθενείαις εν ύβρεσιν εν ανάγκαις εν διωγμοίς εν στενοχωρίαις υπέρ χριστού όταν γαρ ασθενώ τότε δυνατός ειμι
2 Corinthians 13:3
- KJV: Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me which to you-ward is not weak but is mighty in you
- GK: επεί δοκιμήν ζητείτε του εν εμοί λαλούντος χριστού ος εις υμάς ουκ ασθενεί αλλά δυνατεί εν υμίν
2 Corinthians 13:4
- KJV: For though he was crucified through weakness yet he liveth by the power of God For also are weak in him but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you
- GK: και γαρ ει εσταυρώθη εξ ασθενείας αλλά ζη εκ δυνάμεως θεού και γαρ ημείς ασθενούμεν εν αυτώ αλλά ζησόμεθα συν αυτώ εκ δυνάμεως θεού εις υμάς