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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 - infirm ones be healing, lepers be cleansing, dead be raising, demons be casting out -- freely ye did receive, freely give.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40 - And at the setting of the sun, all, as many as had any ailing with manifold sicknesses, brought them unto him, and he on each one of them his hands having put, did heal them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:10 - and those sent, having turned back to the house, found the ailing servant in health.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:2 - and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:46

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The ailing man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 - and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:1 - And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from 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 - and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:3 - therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, 'Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 - when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:37 - and it came to pass in those days she, having ailed, died, and having bathed her, they laid her in an upper chamber,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12 - so that even unto the ailing were brought from his body handkerchiefs or aprons, and the sicknesses departed from them; the evil spirits also went forth from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35 - all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth us to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of 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 having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and 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 was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience -- in regard to Christ ye sin;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21 - in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold -- in foolishness I say it -- I also am bold.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:29 - Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:10 - wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26 - seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:27 - for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:20 - Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:14 - is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,
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