ἀσθενής
weak
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- 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.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Degree
- Comparative
- Expresses a greater degree (“greater,” “more”).
1 verse where G772 appears in the Genitive case in the Book of 1 Corinthians. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
1 Corinthians
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.
ασθενης (asthenḗs) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “weak.” Scripture first uses it in Matthew 25:43. Spanning 23 verses in 11 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. 1 Corinthians dominates its distribution — 9 of 23 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside Α, αβαρης and αβυσσος. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G772 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.
- 11 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 11 of 27 New Testament books.
- #530
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 530 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 9 verses 39%
- Matthew 3 verses 13%
- Acts 3 verses 13%
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 13 verses · 57%
- Gospels 5 verses · 22%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 17%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 4%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 4%
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: Weak 7×, Sick 6×, Is weak 3×
- American Standard Version: Weak 8×, Sick 5×, Is weak 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Weak 13×, Sick 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Weak 9×, Sick 7×, Is weak 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G772 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G772 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 G772 across 26 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G772 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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.
- weak, infirm, feeble
Word origin
Derived from Α (A) (G1) — alpha.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G772 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀσθενεῖς astheneîs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 10:9 | 6 |
| ἀσθενής asthenḗs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 26:41 | 3 |
| ἀσθενὴς asthenḕs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 8:7 | 3 |
| ἀσθενῆ asthenē̂ | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 1:27 | 3 |
| ἀσθενὲς asthenès | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Hebrews 7:18 | 2 |
| ἀσθενέσιν asthenésin | Adjective, Dative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 8:9 | 2 |
| ἀσθενοῦς asthenoûs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Acts 4:9 | 2 |
| ἀσθενῶν asthenō̂n | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Romans 5:6 | 2 |
| ἀσθενέστερα asthenéstera | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter, Comparative | 1 Corinthians 12:22 | 1 |
| ἀσθενεστέρῳ asthenestérō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Neuter, Comparative | 1 Peter 3:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G772, 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
- αβαρης abarḗs G4 light
- αβυσσος ábyssos G12 abyss
- αγαμος ágamos G22 unmarried
- αγενεαλογητος agenealógētos G35 without genealogy
- αγενης agenḗs G36 ignoble
- αγναφος ágnaphos G46 unprocessed
- αγνοεω agnoéō G50 to be ignorant
- αγνωσια agnōsía G56 ignorance
- αγνωστος ágnōstos G57 unknown
- αγραμματος agrámmatos G62 unlearned
- αγρυπνεω agrypnéō G69 to watch
- αδαπανος adápanos G77 free
- αδελφος adelphós G80 brother
- αδηλος ádēlos G82 obscure
- αδης háidēs G86 hell
- αδιακριτος adiákritos G87 clear
- αδιαλειπτος adiáleiptos G88 continual
- αδικος ádikos G94 unjust
- αδοκιμος adókimos G96 unapproved
- αδολος ádolos G97 guileless
- αδυνατος adýnatos G102 weak
- αζυμος ázymos G106 unleavened
- αθανασια athanasía G110 immortal
- αθεμιτος athémitos G111 unlawful
+149 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 178 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ασθενης appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 10 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 29:17 ἀσθενής
- Numbers 13:18 ἀσθενής
- Judges 16:13 ἀσθενής
- 1 Samuel 2:10 ἀσθενής
- 2 Samuel 13:4 ἀσθενής
- Job 4:3 ἀσθενής
- Psalms 6:3 ἀσθενής
- Proverbs 6:8 ἀσθενής
- Ezekiel 17:14 ἀσθενής
- Daniel 1:10 ἀσθενής
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G772) 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.
- Genesis 29:17 ἀσθενής Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
- Numbers 13:18 ἀσθενής and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
- Judges 16:13 ἀσθενής Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 ἀσθενής Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in the sky: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; He will give strength to his king, Exalt the horn of his anointed.
- 2 Samuel 13:4 ἀσθενής He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.
- Job 4:3 ἀσθενής Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.
- Job 36:15 ἀσθενής He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, And opens their ear in oppression.
- Psalms 6:3 ἀσθενής My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
- Psalms 104:37 ἀσθενής
- Proverbs 6:8 ἀσθενής Provides her bread in the summer, And gathers her food in the harvest.
- Proverbs 21:13 ἀσθενής Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
- Proverbs 22:22 ἀσθενής Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; And don't crush the needy in court;
- Proverbs 31:5 ἀσθενής Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
- Proverbs 31:9 ἀσθενής Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."
- Ezekiel 17:14 ἀσθενής that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
- Ezekiel 34:20 ἀσθενής Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
- Daniel 1:10 ἀσθενής The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G772) 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.
