weak

Greek Adjective

ἀσθενής -ές (ἀ- neg, σθένος, strength), [in LXX for עָנִי, etc;] without strength, weak, feeble: 1Co.1:27 4:10 12:22, 2Co.10:10, Gal.4:9, 1Th.5:14, Heb.7:18, 1Pe.3:7. Rhetorically, τό ἀ. τ. θεοῦ, God's action of apparent weakness: 1Co.1:25; of bodily debility, sick, sickly: Mat.25:39 (Rec.) Mat.25:43-44, Luk.9:2 (Rec.) Luk.10:9, Act.4:9 5:15-16 In moral and spiritual sense (MM, see word; Cremer, 526), Mat.26:41, Mrk.14:38, Rom.5:6, 1Co.8:7 8:9-10 9:22 11:30. (AS)

weak

Greek Adjective

ἀσθεν-ής, ές, without strength, weak, 1) in body, feeble, sickly, τοὺς ἀσθενέας τῆς στρατιῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοὺς ἀσθενεστάτους ἐς τὰς ταλαιπωρίας least able to bear hardship, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀσθενέστερος πόνον ἐνεγκεῖν too weak to, [Refs 4th c.BC+]. adverb ἀσθενῶς, ἴσχειν[Refs 5th c.BC+] 2) in mind, and the like, τὸ ἀ. τῆς γνώμης the weakness, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 3) in power, weak, feeble, ἀ. δύναμις[Refs 5th c.BC+] 4) in property, weak, poor, οἱ χρήμασιν ἀσθενέστεροι[Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀσθενέστεροι the weaker sort, i.e. the poor, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 5) insignificant, οὐκ ἀσθενέστατος σοφιστὴς Ἑλλήνων[Refs 5th c.BC+]; paltry, ἀ. σόφισμα[Refs 4th c.BC+]; of streams, petty, small, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of fluids, of small specific gravity, [Refs]; ἐς ἀσθενὲς ἔρχεται comes to nothing, [Refs]. adverb -νῶς feebly, without energy, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; on slight evidence, ἀπαγγέλλεσθαι[Refs 1st c.AD+]Praef: comparative ἀσθενεστέρως, ἐπιθυμεῖν[Refs 5th c.BC+] -έστερον [Refs] -έστερα [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Greek

Adjective

strengthless (in various applications, literal, figurative and moral); more feeble, impotent, sick, without strength, weak(-er, -ness, thing); from g1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and the base of g4599 (σθενόω);