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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 57 times in 54 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Jdg 16:7–Nah 2:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said unto her, If they only bind me with new ropes wherewith no work hath been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - And he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:4 -
The bows of the mighty men are broken;
And they that stumbled are girded with strength.

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They that were full have hired out themselves for bread;
And they that were hungry have ceased to hunger:
Yea, the barren hath borne seven;
And she that hath many children languisheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1 - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 -
Thy words have upholden him that was falling,
And thou hast made firm the feeble knees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 -
He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn;
They are forgotten of the foot;
They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:3 -
When mine enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish at thy presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:36 -
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,
And my feet have not slipped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:1 -
A Psalm of David.
Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity:
I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:2 -
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh,
Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10

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For my life is spent with sorrow,
And my years with sighing:
My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
And my bones are wasted away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 -
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace:
When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:9 -
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain,
Thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 -
Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction:
I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah;
I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

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Therefore he brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was none to help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:24 -
My knees are weak through fasting;
And my flesh faileth of fatness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:16 -
For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again;
But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thy heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:4 - And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:4 - And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:12 - The smith maketh an axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:21 - Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:15 - For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:6 - Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 - The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:16 - He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:32 - And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 -
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand;
They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail:
The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

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Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;
He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

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The young men bare the mill;
And the children stumbled under the wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:15 - I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:4 - The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:14 - And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among thy people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:19 - Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:33 - And they that are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:34 - Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall join themselves unto them with flatteries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - And some of them that are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:41 - He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:5 - And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:5 - And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 11:6 - And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:1 - O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:9 - Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 - He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

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