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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 sick, G770 cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, G770 and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick G770 in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick G770 with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:10 - And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:2 - And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:46 - So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick G770 at Capernaum.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, G770 of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The impotent man G770 answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 - And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:1 - Now a certain man was sick, G770 named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:2 - (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:3 - Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 - When he had heard therefore that he was sick, G770 he abode two days still in the same 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 was sick, G770 and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12 - So that from his body were brought unto the sick G770 handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35 - I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, G770 and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he 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 being not weak G770 in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara'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 G770 through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - Him that is weak G770 in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, G770 eateth herbs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - And through thy knowledge shall the weak G770 brother perish, for whom Christ died?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak G770 conscience, ye sin against Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21 - I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. G770 Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:29 - Who is weak, G770 and I am G770 ➔ not weak? G770 who is offended, and I burn not?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:10 - Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, G770 then am I strong.

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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, which to you-ward is G770 ➔ not weak, G770 but is mighty in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak G770 in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - For we are glad, when we are weak, G770 and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26 - For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:27 - For indeed he was sick G770 nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:20 - Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick. G770

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:14 - Is G770 ➔ any sick G770 among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
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