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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)
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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11

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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - And he told her all his mind, 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 I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4 - The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:5

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.

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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26

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?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15

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 that 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 asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Sama'ria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 - Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - They open shafts in a valley away from where men live; they are forgotten by travelers, they hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:3 - When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36 - Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 - A Psalm of David. Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 - When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 - Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9 - Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O LORD; I spread out my hands to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 - My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:16 - for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - and say to him, 'Take heed, 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 Remali'ah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on it, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - The mind of the rash will have good judgment, and the tongue of the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals; he shapes it with hammers, and forges it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:21

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.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 - The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphra'tes they have stumbled and fallen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12

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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - Your multitude stumbled and 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.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32

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 round about him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - "My transgressions were bound 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:8 - The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he marked it off by the line; he restrained not his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:13 - Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6

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 brought forth branches and put forth foliage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 - "In those times many shall rise against the king of the south; and the men of violence among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfil the vision; but they shall fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - And those among the people who are wise shall make many understand, though they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder, for some days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - and some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine and to cleanse them and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is yet for the time appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:5

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:5 - The pride of Israel testifies to his face; E'phraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6 - The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them in their fortresses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:1 - Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:9

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 - The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.

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