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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 cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said to her, “If they bind me tightly with new ropes [fn]which have not been used for work, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I will become weak and be like every other man.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4 -

“The bows of the mighty are shattered,

But those who stumble gird on strength.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5 -

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,

But those who were hungry cease to hunger.

Even the barren gives birth to seven,

But she who has many children languishes.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1 -

Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was long; and David grew steadily stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker continually.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 -

‘So their inhabitants were short of power,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops is scorched before it rises.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - Then the men who were designated by name arose, took hold of the captives, and they clothed all their naked ones from the spoil; and they gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and gave them drink, anointed them with oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers; then they returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 -

“Your words have [fn]helped the stumbling to stand,

And you have encouraged [fn]feeble knees.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 -

“He [fn]sinks a shaft far from [fn]habitation,

Forgotten by the foot;

They hang and swing to and fro far from men.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:3 -

Beth

When my enemies turn back,

They stumble and perish before You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36 -

You enlarge my steps under me,

And my ankles have not given way.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 -

Of David.

Give justice to me, O Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity,

And I have trusted in Yahweh; I will not waver.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 -

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,

My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 -

For my life is worn down 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 flow away like water that runs off;

When he [fn]aims his arrows, let them be as [fn]headless shafts.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9 -

You caused abundant rain to sprinkle down, O God;

You established Your inheritance when it was [fn]parched.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 -

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;

I have called upon You every day, O Yahweh;

I have spread out my [fn]hands to You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 -

So He subdued their heart with labor;

They stumbled and there was none to help.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 -

My knees are feeble from fasting,

And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:16 -

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again,

But the wicked will stumble in [fn]calamity.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - and say to him, ‘Take care and stay quiet, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the burning anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 -

The bed is too short on which to stretch out,

And the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 -

Then you will be brought low;

From the earth you will speak,

And from the dust where you are prostrate

Your words will come.

Your voice will also be like that of a [fn]spirit from the ground,

And your speech will whisper from the dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 -

And the heart of the hasty will discern knowledge,

And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 -

The man crafts iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, [fn]forming it with hammers and working it with his powerful arm. He also gets hungry and has no power; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:21 -

Therefore, thus says Yahweh,

“Behold, I am [fn]laying stumbling blocks before this people.

And they will stumble against them,

Fathers and sons together;

Neighbor and [fn]friend will perish.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 -

‘For My people have forgotten Me;

They burn incense [fn]to worthless gods,

And they [fn]have stumbled [fn]from their ways,

[fn]From the ancient paths,

To walk in bypaths,

Not on a highway,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 -

Let not the swift man flee,

Nor the mighty man escape;

In the north beside the river Euphrates

They have stumbled and fallen.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 -

The nations have heard of your disgrace,

And the earth is full of your outcry;

For one warrior has stumbled over [fn]another,

And both of them have fallen down together.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 -

“They have repeatedly stumbled;

Indeed, they have fallen one against another.

Then they said, ‘Rise up! And let us return

To our own people and land of our birth

Away from the [fn]sword of the oppressor.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 -

“The [fn]arrogant one will stumble and fall

With no one to raise him up;

And I will set fire to his cities,

And it will devour him on every side.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 -

Nun

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound;

By His hand they are knit together.

They have come upon my neck;

He has made my strength stumble.

The Lord has given me into the hands

Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 -

Heth

Yahweh [fn]determined to bring to ruin

The wall of the daughter of Zion.

He has stretched out a line;

He has not turned His hand back from swallowing up,

And He has caused rampart and wall to mourn;

They have languished together.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 -

Young men lifted up the stone at the grinding mill,

And youths stumbled down under loads of wood.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - “Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its foliage turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - that their hearts may melt, and many will be stumbling blocks at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword. Ah! It is made for striking like lightning, it is wrapped up in readiness for slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - “Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, and the [fn]diseased you have not healed, and the broken you have not bound up, and the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you searched for the lost; but with strength and with severity you have dominated them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 -

“Now in those times many will stand against the king of the South; the violent ones among your people will also lift themselves up in order to cause the vision to stand, but they will [fn]fall down.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19 - “So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be found no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - “And [fn]those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - “Now when they fall, they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in [fn]intrigue.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - “And some of [fn]those who have insight will fall, in order to refine, purge, and make them [fn]pure until the time of the end, because it is still to come at the appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - “And he will also enter the [fn]Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab, and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:5 -

So you will stumble by day,

And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;

And I will destroy your mother.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:5 -

Moreover, the pride of Israel answers against him,

And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;

Judah also has stumbled with them.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6 -

And the sword will whirl against [fn]their cities

And will consume [fn]their gate bars

And devour them because of their counsels.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:1 -

[fn]Return, O Israel, to Yahweh your God,

For you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:9 -

Whoever is wise, so let him discern these things;

Whoever is discerning, let him know them.

For the ways of Yahweh are right,

And the righteous will walk in them,

But transgressors will stumble in them.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 -

He remembers his mighty ones;

They stumble in their march;

They hurry to her wall,

And the [fn]mantelet is set up.


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