ἀσθενέω

ἀσθενέω — asthenéō

ἀσθενέω, ἀσθενῶ; imperfect ἠσθενουν; perfect ἠσθένηκα (2Co 11:21 L T Tr WH); 1 aorist ἠσθένησα; (ἀσθενής); (from Euripides down); to be weak, feeble; universally, to be without strength, powerless: Rom 8:3; rhetorically, of one who purposely abstains from the use of his strength, 2Co 13:4; and of one wire has no occasion to prove his strength, 2Co 13:9; contextually, to be unable to wield and hold sway over others, 2Co 11:21; by oxymoron, ὅταν ἀσθενῶ, τότε δυνατός εἰμί when I am weak in human strength, then am I strong in strength divine, 2Co 12:10; εἰς τινα, to be weak toward one, 2Co 13:3; with a dative of the respect added: πίστει, to be weak in faith, Rom 4:19; πίστει, to be doubtful about things lawful and unlawful to a Christian, Rom 14:1; simple ἀσθένειν with the same idea suggested, Rom 14:2; Rom 14:21 (T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets); 1Co 8:9 Rec., 11f; τίς ἀσθενεῖ, καί 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? 2Co 11:29. contextually, to be weak in means, needy, poor: Act 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, Luk 4:40; simply, to be feeble, sick: Luk 7:10 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Mat 25:36; Mat 25:39 L text T Tr WH; Joh 4:46; Joh 11:1-3; Joh 11:6; Act 9:37; Php 2:26; 2Ti 4:20; Jas 5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, and ἀσθενοῦντες, the sick, sick folks: Mat 10:8; Mar 6:56; Luk 9:2 Rec.; Joh 5:3; Joh 5:7; Joh 5:13 Tdf.;; Act 19:12.