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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 33 times in 32 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - “Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me [with help and ministering care]; I was in prison, and you came to Me [ignoring personal danger].’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:39

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:39 - ‘And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - And wherever He came into villages, or cities, or the countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places and pleading with Him [to allow them] just to touch the fringe (tassel with a blue cord) of His robe; and all who touched it were healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40 -

While the sun was setting [marking the end of the Sabbath day], all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus; and laying His hands on each one of them, He was healing them [exhibiting His authority as Messiah].

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:46 -

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a [fn]certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - In these porticoes lay a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [fn][waiting for the stirring of the water;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The invalid answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am coming [to get into it myself], someone else steps down ahead of me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 - A large crowd was following Him because they had seen the signs (attesting miracles) which He continually performed on those who were sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:1 -

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from [fn]Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:2 - It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:3 - So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, he [our brother and Your friend] whom You love is sick.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 - [fn]So [even] when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed in the same place two more days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:37 - During that time it happened that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upstairs room.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12 - so that even handkerchiefs or face-towels or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out [of them].

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35 - “In everything I showed you [by example] that by working hard in this way you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, ‘It is more blessed [and brings greater joy] to give than to receive.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:19 - Without becoming weak in faith he considered his own body, now as good as dead [for producing children] since he was about a hundred years old, and [he considered] the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:3 - For what the Law could not do [that is, overcome sin and remove its penalty, its power] being weakened by the flesh [man’s nature without the Holy Spirit], God did: He sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man as an offering for sin. And He condemned sin in the flesh [subdued it and overcame it in the person of His own Son],

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 -

As for the [fn]one whose faith is weak, accept him [into your fellowship], but not for [the purpose of] quarreling over his opinions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - One man’s faith permits him to eat everything, while the weak believer eats only vegetables [to avoid eating ritually unclean meat or something previously considered unclean].

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - For through your knowledge (spiritual maturity) this weak man is ruined [that is, he suffers in his spiritual life], the brother for whom Christ died.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - And when you sin against the brothers and sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience [by confusing them], you sin against Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21 - To my shame, I must say, we have been too weak [in comparison to those pseudo-apostles who take advantage of you].

But in whatever anyone else dares to boast—I am speaking foolishly—I also dare to boast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:29 - Who is weak, and I do not feel [his] weakness? Who is made to sin, and I am not on fire [with sorrow and concern]?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:10 - So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak [in human strength], then I am strong [truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God’s strength].

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - since you seek [forensic] proof that Christ is speaking in and through me. He is not weak or ineffective in dealing with you, but powerful within you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - For even though He was crucified in weakness [yielding Himself], yet He lives [resurrected] by the power of God [His Father]. For we too are weak in Him [as He was humanly weak], yet we are alive and well [in fellowship] with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - We are glad when we are weak [since God’s power comes freely through us], but you [by comparison] are strong. We also pray for this, that you be made complete [fully restored, growing and maturing in godly character and spirit—pleasing your heavenly Father by the life you live].

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26 - For he has been longing [fn]for all of you and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:27 - He certainly was sick and close to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:20 - Erastus stayed on at Corinth, but I left Trophimus sick at Miletus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:14 - Is anyone among you sick? He must call for the elders (spiritual leaders) of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with [fn]oil in the name of the Lord;
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