ἀσθενέω

ἀσθενῶ; imperfect ἠσθενουν; perfect ἠσθένηκα (2 Cor 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, 2 Cor 13:4; and of one wire has no occasion to prove his strength, 2 Cor 13:9; contextually, to be unable to wield and hold sway over others, 2 Cor 11:21; by oxymoron, ὅταν ἀσθενῶ, τότε δυνατός εἰμί when I am weak in human strength, then am I strong in strength divine, 2 Cor 12:10; εἰς τινα, to be weak toward one, 2 Cor 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); 1 Cor 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? 2 Cor 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, Lk 4:40; simply, to be feeble, sick: Lk 7:10 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Mt 25:36, Mt 25:39 L text T Tr WH; Jn 4:46; Jn 11:1-3, Jn 11:6; Acts 9:37; Phm 2:26; 2 Tim 4:20; Jas 5:14; οἱ ἀσθενοῦντες, and ἀσθενοῦντες, the sick, sick folks: Mt 10:8; Mk 6:56; Lk 9:2 Rec.; Jn 5:3, Jn 5:7, Jn 5:13 Tdf.; ; Acts 19:12.