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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 36 times in 35 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - Heal the infirm, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons: ye have received gratuitously, give gratuitously.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - And wherever he entered into villages, or cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might touch if it were only the hem of his garment; and as many as touched him were healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40 - And when the sun went down, all, as many as had persons sick with divers diseases, brought them to him, and having laid his hands on every one of them, he healed them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:10 - And they who had been sent returning to the house found the bondman, who was ill, in good health.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:2 - and sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:46 - He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - In these lay a multitude of sick, blind, lame, withered, awaiting the moving of the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The infirm man answered him, Sir, I have not a man, in order, when the water has been troubled, to cast me into the pool; but while I am coming another descends before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 - and a great crowd followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought upon the sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:1 - Now there was a certain man sick, Lazarus of Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:2 - It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment 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 - The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 - When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:37 - And it came to pass in those days that she grew sick and died; and, having washed her, they put her in the upper room.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12 - so that even napkins or aprons were brought from his body and put upon the sick, and the diseases left them, and the wicked spirits went out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35 - I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:19 - and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening 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, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - One man is assured that he may eat all things; but the weak eats herbs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - It is right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor do anything in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - But see lest anywise this your right to eat itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - and the weak one, the brother for whose sake Christ died, will perish through thy knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21 - I speak as to dishonour, as though *we* had been weak; but wherein any one is daring, (I speak in folly,) *I* also am daring.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:29 - Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I burn not?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:10 - Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - For we rejoice when *we* may be weak and *ye* may be powerful. But this also we pray for, your perfecting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26 - since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:27 - for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:20 - Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:14 - Is any sick among you? let him call to him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
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