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Lexicon :: Strong's G770 - astheneō

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ἀσθενέω
Transliteration
astheneō (Key)
Pronunciation
as-then-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
33x in 15 unique form(s)
TR
36x in 16 unique form(s)
LXX
57x in 20 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:490,83

Strong’s Definitions

ἀσθενέω asthenéō, as-then-eh'-o; from G772; to be feeble (in any sense):—be diseased, impotent folk (man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's G770 in the following manner: be weak (12x), be sick (10x), sick (7x), weak (3x), impotent man (1x), be diseased (1x), be made weak (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's G770 in the following manner: be weak (12x), be sick (10x), sick (7x), weak (3x), impotent man (1x), be diseased (1x), be made weak (1x).
  1. to be weak, feeble, to be without strength, powerless

  2. to be weak in means, needy, poor

  3. to be feeble, sick

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀσθενέω asthenéō, as-then-eh'-o; from G772; to be feeble (in any sense):—be diseased, impotent folk (man), (be) sick, (be, be made) weak.
STRONGS G770:
ἀσθενέω, -ῶ; imperfect ἠσθένουν; perfect ἠσθένηκα (2 Corinthians 11:21 L T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἠσθένησα; (ἀσθενής); [from Euripides down]; to be weak, feeble; universally, to be without strength, powerless: Romans 8:3; rhetorically, of one who purposely abstains from the use of his strength, 2 Corinthians 13:4; and of one who has no occasion to prove his strength, 2 Corinthians 13:9; contextually, to be unable to wield and hold sway over others, 2 Corinthians 11:21; by oxymoron, ὅταν ἀσθενῶ, τότε δυνατός εἰμι when I am weak in human strength, then am I strong in strength divine, 2 Corinthians 12:10; εἴς τινα, to be weak towards one, 2 Corinthians 13:3; with a dative of the respect added: πίστει, to be weak in faith, Romans 4:19; πίστει, to be doubtful about things lawful and unlawful to a Christian, Romans 14:1; simple ἀσθενεῖν with the same idea suggested, Romans 14:2, 21 [T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets]; 1 Corinthians 8:9 Rec., 11f; τίς ἀσθενεῖ, καὶ 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? 2 Corinthians 11:29. contextually, to be weak in means, needy, poor: Acts 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, Luke 4:40; simply, to be feeble, sick: Luke 7:10 [R G Tr marginal reading brackets]; Matthew 25:36, 39 L text T Tr WH; John 4:46; John 11:1-3, 6; Acts 9:37; Philippians 2:26; 2 Timothy 4:20; James 5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, and ἀσθενοῦντες, the sick, sick folks: Matthew 10:8; Mark 6:56; Luke 9:2 Rec.; John 5:3, 7, 13 Tdf.; John 6:2; Acts 19:12.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
10:8; 25:36; 25:39
Mark
6:56
Luke
4:40; 7:10; 9:2
John
4:46; 5:3; 5:7; 5:13; 6:2; 11:1; 11:2; 11:3; 11:6
Acts
9:37; 19:12; 20:35
Romans
4:19; 8:3; 14:1; 14:2; 14:21
1 Corinthians
8:9
2 Corinthians
11:21; 11:21; 11:29; 12:10; 13:3; 13:4; 13:9
Philippians
2:26
2 Timothy
4:20
James
5:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G770 matches the Greek ἀσθενέω (astheneō),
which occurs 57 times in 54 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Jdg 16:7–Nah 2:5)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4 - The bows of the mighty are broken,
but the feeble bind on strength.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 - Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,
but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
The barren has borne seven,
but she who has many children is forlorn.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1 - There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted before it is grown.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 - Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have made firm the feeble knees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives;
they are forgotten by travelers;
they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:3 - When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before[fn] your presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36 - You gave a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 - Of David.
Vindicate me, O LORD,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When evildoers assail me
to eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
it is they who stumble and fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 - Let them vanish like water that runs away;
when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9 - Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad;
you restored your inheritance as it languished;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O LORD;
I spread out my hands to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor;
they fell down, with none to help.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees are weak through fasting;
my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:16 - for the righteous falls seven times and rises again,
but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on,
and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak,
and from the dust your speech will be bowed down;
your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost,
and from the dust your speech shall whisper.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - The heart of the hasty will understand and know,
and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:21 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
‘Behold, I will lay before this people
stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble;
fathers and sons together,
neighbor and friend shall perish.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - But my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to false gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
in the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
not the highway,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 - “The swift cannot flee away,
nor the warrior escape;
in the north by the river Euphrates
they have stumbled and fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 - The nations have heard of your shame,
and the earth is full of your cry;
for warrior has stumbled against warrior;
they have both fallen together.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - He made many stumble, and they fell,
and they said one to another,
‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people
and to the land of our birth,
because of the sword of the oppressor.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 - The proud one shall stumble and fall,
with none to raise him up,
and I will kindle a fire in his cities,
and it will devour all that is around him.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “My transgressions were bound[fn] into a yoke;
by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
of those whom I cannot withstand.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 - The LORD determined to lay in ruins
the wall of the daughter of Zion;
he stretched out the measuring line;
he did not restrain his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to lament;
they languished together.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men are compelled to grind at the mill,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - that their hearts may melt, and many stumble.[fn] At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is taken up[fn] for slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 - “In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19 - Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery,
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:5 - You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy your mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:5 - The pride of Israel testifies to his face;[fn]
Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt;
Judah also shall stumble with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6 - The sword shall rage against their cities,
consume the bars of their gates,
and devour them because of their own counsels.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:1 - Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:9 - Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the LORD are right,
and the upright walk in them,
but transgressors stumble in them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 - He remembers his officers;
they stumble as they go,
they hasten to the wall;
the siege tower[fn] is set up.

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