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Lexicon :: Strong's G770 - astheneō

Aa
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 BoxMat 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 10:8 - Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers,[fn] cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 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 BoxMar 6:56

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:56 - And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:40 - Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who 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 BoxLuk 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:10 - And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:46 - So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:3 - In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 5:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 6:2 - And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:2

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:3 - So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:6 - So, when he heard that Lazarus[fn] was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:37 - In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 19:12

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35 - In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 4:19 - He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness[fn] of Sarah’s womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 8:3 - For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,[fn] he condemned sin in the flesh,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:1 - As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:2 - One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 14:21 - It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:9 - But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:11 - And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:12 - Thus, sinning against your brothers[fn] and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:21 - To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:29 - Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 12:10 - For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:3 - since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:4 - For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 13:9 - For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:26 - for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:27 - Indeed he was ill, near to 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 Box2Ti 4:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:20 - Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 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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