ἀσθένεια
weakness
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G769 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 4:15 ἀσθενείαις n dat pl fem For we don't have a high priest who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
- Hebrews 5:2 ἀσθένειαν n acc sg fem The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.
- Hebrews 7:28 ἀσθένειαν n acc sg fem For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever who has been perfected.
- Hebrews 11:34 ἀσθενείας n gen sg fem quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and turned to flight armies of aliens.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun ασθενεια centers on the idea of “weakness.” Where the King James Version says “infirmities,” newer translations reach for “weakness” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. It appears 23 verses across 10 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Debuting at Matthew 8:17, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with ασθενης and ασθενεω. Dig into 23-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G769 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #548
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 548 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Corinthians 5 verses 22%
- Luke 4 verses 17%
- Hebrews 4 verses 17%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 23 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 11 verses · 48%
- Gospels 7 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 22%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 17%
- Johannine 2 verses · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Infirmities 10×, Infirmity 6×, Weakness 5×
- American Standard Version: Infirmity 8×, Weakness 6×, Infirmities 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Weakness 9×, Weaknesses 4×, Infirmities 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Weakness 13×, Weaknesses 4×, Sicknesses 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G769 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G769 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G769 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G769 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- want of strength, weakness, infirmity
Word origin
Derived from ασθενης (asthenḗs) (G772) — weak.
From G772 ; feebleness (of body or mind); by implication malady ; moral frailty : - disease infirmity sickness weakness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G769 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀσθενείας astheneías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Luke 13:11 | 8 |
| ἀσθενείᾳ astheneía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | John 5:5 | 5 |
| ἀσθένειαν asthéneian | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 6:19 | 4 |
| ἀσθενείαις astheneíais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 12:5 | 4 |
| ἀσθενειῶν astheneiō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Luke 5:15 | 2 |
| ἀσθένεια asthéneia | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | John 11:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G769, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ασθενεια appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 4 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Job 37:7 ἀσθένεια
- Psalms 15:4 ἀσθένεια
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 ἀσθένεια
- Jeremiah 6:21 ἀσθένεια
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G769) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 37:7 ἀσθένεια He seals up the hand of every man, That all men whom he has made may know it.
- Psalms 15:4 ἀσθένεια In whose eyes a vile man is despised, But who honors those who fear Yahweh; He who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
- Ecclesiastes 12:4 ἀσθένεια And the doors shall be shut in the street; When the sound of the grinding is low, And one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, And all the daughters of music shall be brought low;
- Jeremiah 6:21 ἀσθένεια Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people; and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.
- Jeremiah 18:23 ἀσθένεια Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G769) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
