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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #772 - ἀσθενής
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ἀσθεν-ής, ές, without strength, weak,
1 in body, feeble, sickly, τοὺς ἀσθενέας τῆς στρατιῆς Hdt. 4.135, cf. Hp. VM 12; ἀσθενεῖ χρωτὶ βαίνων Pi. P. 1.55, etc.; ὁ παντάπασιν ἀ. τῷ σώματι D. 21.165; ἀ. περὶ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν Luc. Nigr. 4; τοὺς ἀσθενεστάτους ἐς τὰς ταλαιπωρίας least able to bear hardship, Hdt. 4.134; ἀσθενέστερος πόνον ἐνεγκεῖν too weak to.., D. 23.54. Adv. ἀσθενῶς, ἴσχειν Pl. Lg. 659e, cf. OGI 751.8 (Amblada, ii B.C.).
2. in mind, and the like, τὸ ἀ. τῆς γνώμης the weakness, Th. 2.61.
3. in power, weak, feeble, ἀ. δύναμις Hdt. 7.9. ά, cf. 1.58; τέχνη δ' ἀνάγκης-εστέρα μακρῷ A. Pr. 514; πόλιν ἑνὸς-εστέραν S. OC 1033; εἰς ὠφέλειαν ἀ. D. Ephesians 2:15.
4. in property, weak, poor, οἱ χρήμασιν ἀσθενέστεροι Hdt. 2.88: abs., ὅ τ' ἀ. ὁ πλούσιός τε E. Supp. 433; οἱ ἀσθενέστεροι the weaker sort, i.e. the poor, X. Cyr. 8.1.30, cf. Lys. 1.2.
5. insignificant, οὐκ ἀσθενέστατος σοφιστὴς Ἑλλήνων Hdt. 4.95; paltry, ἀ. σόφισμα A. Pr. 1011; of streams, petty, small, Hdt. 2.25; of fluids, of small specific gravity, Id. 3.23; ἐς ἀσθενὲς ἔρχεται comes to nothing, Id. 1.120. Adv. -νῶς feebly, without energy, Pl. R. 528b; on slight evidence, ἀπαγγέλλεσθαι Onos. Praef.: Comp. ἀσθενεστέρως, ἐπιθυμεῖν Pl. Phdr. 255e; -έστερον Id. Chrm. 172b; -έστερα Th. 1.141.
* ἀσθενής -ές
(< ἀ - neg., σθένος , strength),
[in LXX for H6041, etc.;]
without strength, weak, feeble: 1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 12:22, 2 Corinthians 10:10, Galatians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 5:14, Hebrews 7:18, 1 Peter 3:7. Rhetorically, τό ἀ . τ . θεοῦ , God's action of apparent weakness: 1 Corinthians 1:25; of bodily debility, sick, sickly: Matthew 25:39 (Rec.) Matthew 25:43-44, Luke 9:2 (Rec.) Luke 10:9, Acts 4:9; Acts 5:15-16 In moral and spiritual sense (MM, s.v.; Cremer, 526), Matthew 26:41, Mark 14:38, Romans 5:6, 1 Corinthians 8:7; 1 Corinthians 8:9-10; 1 Corinthians 9:22; 1 Corinthians 11:30.†
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PAmh II. 78.14 (A.D. 184) μ [ου ] πλεονεκτῖ ἄνθρωπος ἀ [σ ]θε ̣ν ̣ής (for –ου –οῦς !), ib. 141.15 (A.D. 350) οὐ δυναμένη ἀφησυχάσαι γυνὴ [ἀσθε ]νὴς καὶ χήρα κτλ . P Flor I. 58.14 (iii/A.D.) καταφρονο ]υ ̣̑ντές μου ὡς ̣γυναικὸς ἀσ [θ ]ε ̣[νο ]υ ̣̓ͅ. P Théad 20i. 15 (iv/A.D.) τὰς ἀσθενεστέρας κώμα [ς ], ";weaker"; financially. For the adv. see OGIS 751.8 (ii/B.C.) ἐπεὶ θλιβέντες ἐμ πλείοσιν ἀσθενῶς [σχή ]σετε . The definitely moral character of the adj. in Rom and 1 Cor may be illustrated by Epict. Diss. i. 8. 8, where the ἀσθενεῖς are coupled with the ἀπαίδευτοι . The adj. is curiously rare by comparison with its derivative verb and noun.
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