ἈΣΘΕΝΗ, ἀσθενη
ASTHENĒ, asthenē
Sounds Like: as-theh-NES
Translations: weak, feeble, sick, ill, infirm, a weak one, a sick one
From the root: ἈΣΘΕΝΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is weak, feeble, or sick. It can refer to physical weakness, illness, or a lack of strength or power in a broader sense. It is often used to describe people who are physically unwell or those who are spiritually or morally weak.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine or Feminine
Strong’s number: G772 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 5:10
Clement of Rome
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 1:11
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 2:10
- 4 Maccabees — 7:20
- Odes — 3:10
- Proverbs — 22:22, 24:77
- Job — 36:15
- Ezekiel — 17:14
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 1:10
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΣΘΕΝΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΙΣ — weak, feeble, sick, ill, infirm, a weak person, the weak, the sick
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣ — weak, a weak, feeble, sick, an invalid, powerless, a powerless
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΙΝ — to the weak, to the sick, to the feeble
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΑ — weaker, feebler, more infirm, more sickly
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΑΙ — weaker, more feeble, weaker ones, more feeble ones
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΙ — (to) weaker, (to) feebler, (to) more infirm
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΙΣ — to the weaker, to the feebler, to the more infirm, to the more sickly
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΝ — weaker, feebler, more infirm, more powerless
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΝΔΕ — weaker, but weaker, and weaker, moreover weaker
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΣ — weaker, feebler, more infirm, less strong
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΩ — to the weaker, to a weaker, for the weaker, for a weaker
- ἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΩΝ — of the weaker, of the feebler, of the less powerful
- ἈΣΘΕΝΗΣ — weak, feeble, sick, infirm, a weak person, a sick person
- ἈΣΘΕΝΟΥΣ — of the weak, of the sick, of the feeble, of the infirm, of the powerless
- ἈΣΘΕΝΩΝ — of the weak, of the sick, of the feeble
- ἈΣΘΕΝΩΣ — weakly, feebly, faintly, impotently
- ΤΟΙΣἈΣΘΕΝΕΣΤΕΡΟΙΣ — (to) the weaker, (to) the feebler, (to) the more infirm
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