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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, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,[fn] 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; I was in prison and you came to Me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40 - When the sun was setting, all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to 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 those who were sent, returning to the house, found the servant well who had been sick.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 9:2

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

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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 made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7 - The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 - Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were diseased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:1 - Now a certain man was sick, 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 who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil 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 - Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 - So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:37 - But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12 - so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left 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 shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that 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 not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was 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 could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21 - To our shame I say that we were too weak for that! But in whatever anyone 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, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 12:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak 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 and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26 - since he was longing for you all, 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 - For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him 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 stayed in Corinth, but Trophimus I have left in Miletus sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 5:14 - Is anyone among you sick? 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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