47 occurrences

'Weak' in the Bible

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;

Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

He said to her, "If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man."

He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."

I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness."

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

It shall be, when they tell you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say, Because of the news, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don't be afraid, Zion. Don't let your hands be weak."

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet however any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀσθενέω 
Astheneo 
be weak , be sick , sick , weak , impotent man , be diseased , be made weak
Usage: 34

ἀσθενής 
Asthenes 
Usage: 19

אמל 
'amal 
Usage: 16

דּל 
Dal 
Usage: 48

חלה 
Chalah 
Usage: 76

חלשׁ 
Chalash 
Usage: 4

חלּשׁ 
Challash 
Usage: 1

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 83

רך 
Rak 
Usage: 16

רפה 
Raphah 
feeble , fail , weaken , go , alone , idle , stay , slack , faint , forsake , abated , cease ,
Usage: 46

רפה 
Rapheh 
Usage: 4

ἀδύνατος 
Adunatos 
impossible , impotent , could not do , weak , not possible
Usage: 7

ἀσθένεια 
Astheneia 
Usage: 21