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Strong's G772 · Greek

ἀσθενής

asthenes · as-then-ace'

from 1 (as a negative particle) and the base of 4599; strengthless (in various applications, literal, figurative and moral)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ἀσθενής (G772)

26 * ἀσθενής , -ές ( ἀ- neg., σθένος , strength ), [in LXX for עָנִי , etc.;] without strength , weak , feeble : I Co 1:27 4:10 12:22 , II Co 10:10 , Ga 4:9 , I Th 5:14 , He 7:18 , I Pe 3:7 . Rhetorically, τό ἀ. τ. θεοῦ , God's action of apparent weakness: I Co 1:25 ; of bodily debility, sick , sickly : Mt 25:39 (Rec.) Mt 25:43 , 44 , Lk 9:2 (Rec.) 10:9 , Ac 4:9 5:15 , 16 In moral and spiritual sense (MM, s.v.; Cremer, 526), Mt 26:41 , Mk 14:38 , Ro 5:6 , I Co 8:7 , 8:9 , 10 9:22 11:30 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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