: weak
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. (AS)
Definition:
Included with:
ἀσθέν-εια, ἡ,
want of strength, weakness, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially
feebleness, sickliness, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2)
disease, sickness, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; δι᾽ ἀσθένειαν[
NT]
3) ἀ. βίου
poverty, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4) in moral sense,
feebleness, weakness, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
to be weak, feeble, sickly, ἀ. μέλη
to be weak in limb, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. ἀσθένειαν [
NT+5th c.BC+]; ἠσθένησε he
fell sick, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
sick man, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἠσθενηκότα[
Refs 2nd c.BC+]
2)
to be needy, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἠσθενηκότες, of those
unable to pay taxes, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
3) with
infinitive,
to be too weak to do a thing,
not to be able, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
4)
decline, ἠσθένησεν ἡ ἡμέρα εἰς τὴν ἑσπέραν[
LXX]
Pronounciation:
as-then-eh'-o
Definition:
to be feeble (in any sense); be diseased, impotent folk (man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak; from
g772 (ἀσθενής);