ἀσθένεια

ἀσθένεια — asthéneia

ἀσθένεια, ἀσθενείας, ἡ (ἀσθενής) (from Herodotus down), want of strength, weakness, infirmity;

a. of Body; α. its native weakness and frailty: 1Co 15:43; 2Co 13:4. β. feebleness of health; sickness: Joh 5:5; Joh 11:4; Luk 13:11-12; Gal 4:13 (ἀσθένεια τῆς σαρκός); Heb 11:34; in plural: Mat 8:17; Luk 5:15; Luk 8:2; Act 28:9; 1Ti 5:23.

b. of Soul; want of the strength and capacity requisite α. to understand a thing: Rom 6:19 (where ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκός denotes the weakness of human nature). β. to do things great and glorious, as want of human wisdom, of skill in speaking, in the management of men: 1Co 2:3. γ. to restrain corrupt desires; proclivity to sin: Heb 5:2; Heb 7:28; plural the various kinds of this proclivity, Heb 4:15. δ. to bear trials and troubles: Rom 8:26 (where read τῇ ἀσθένεια for Rec. ταῖς ἀσθενείαις); 2Co 11:30; 2Co 12:9; plural the mental (?) states in which this weakness manifests itself: 2Co 12:5; 2Co 12:9 f.