astheneō · be sick

What it means

astheneō (ἀσθενέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “be sick”.

Be weak.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To be unwell in body, without health, sometimes to the point of death.
2. To have no strength, falter in faith.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sick ×19
• weak ×14
• weakening ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• John×8
• Acts×3
• Romans×5
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×7
• Philippians×2
• 2 Timothy×1
• James×1

• Matthew 10:8

  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Freely you received; freely give.

• Matthew 25:36

  naked, and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:39

  And when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’

• Mark 6:56

  And wherever he went, into villages or into towns or into the countryside, they were laying the sick in the marketplaces, and begging him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched him were made well.

• Luke 4:40

  Now as the sun was setting, all who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he, laying his hands on each one of them, was healing them.

• John 4:46

  So he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

• John 5:3

  In these lay a multitude of the sick: blind, lame, withered.

• John 5:7

  The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am coming, another goes down before me.”

• John 6:2

  And a large crowd was following him, because they were seeing the signs that he was doing on the sick.

• John 11:1

  Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

• John 11:2

  It was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

• John 11:3

  So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, look, the one you hold dear is sick.”

• John 11:6

  So when he heard that he was sick, he then stayed two days in the place where he was.

• Acts 9:37

  And it happened in those days that she became sick and died; and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.

• Acts 19:12

  so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried to the sick, and the diseases left them, and the evil spirits went out.

• Acts 20:35

  In everything I showed you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more happy to give than to receive.’”

• Romans 4:19

  And without weakening in faith, he considered his own body dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

• Romans 8:3

  For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did: sending his own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

• Romans 14:1

  Now welcome the one who is weak in faith, but not for passing judgment on his thoughts.

• Romans 14:2

  One person believes he may eat anything, but the one who is weak eats vegetables.

• Romans 14:21

  It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything by which your brother stumbles or falls away or is weak.

• 1 Corinthians 8:11

  For the one who is weak is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom the Messiah died.

• 1 Corinthians 8:12

  And so, sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against the Messiah.

• 2 Corinthians 11:21

  To my shame I say it, as though we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares —I am speaking in foolishness— I too dare.

• 2 Corinthians 11:29

  Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn?

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions and distresses, for the sake of the Messiah; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

• 2 Corinthians 13:3

  since you are seeking proof of the Messiah speaking in me, who is not weak toward you but is powerful among you.

• 2 Corinthians 13:4

  For indeed he was crucified out of weakness, but he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him by the power of God toward you.

• 2 Corinthians 13:9

  For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; this also we pray for: your restoration.

• Philippians 2:26

  since he was longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick.

• Philippians 2:27

  For indeed he was sick, close to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

• 2 Timothy 4:20

  Erastus remained in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus sick.

• James 5:14

  Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

And 1 more times.