22 occurrences

'Weak' in the Bible

See what the land is like. Observe whether the people who live there are strong or weak, or whether they're few or numerous.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalDealing With Many PeopleWhat Is This?Strong Nations

Samson replied, "If I'm tied up with seven green cords that have never been dried out, then I'll become weak and just like any other human being."

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalTying Up

He told her, "If I'm tied up securely with new ropes that have never been used, then I'll become weak and just like any other human being."

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofUnused

Later on, Delilah told Samson, "You're still mocking me and telling me lies! Tell me how to tie you up!" He answered her, "If you weave the seven locks on my head into a loom and fasten it with a peg, then I will become weak and just like any other human being."

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

So he finally disclosed everything. He told her, "A razor has never touched my head, because I've been a Nazirite for God before I was born. If I am shaved, then my strength will abandon me and I will become weak like every human being."

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAsceticism, People PracticingBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesShavingYielding To TemptationSeparated To GodLong HairFrom The WombHair

Today, even though I'm anointed as king, I'm weak. These men, sons of Zeruiah, are too difficult for me. May the LORD repay the one who acts wickedly in accordance with his wickedness!"

Verse ConceptsEvildoersAnointing KingsNo Strength Left

"I'll catch him while he is still tired and weak. I'll frighten him so all his people with him desert him. But I'll only kill the king.

Verse ConceptsIsrael FleeingOnly One PersonKilling Will HappenTired In Flighttired

Asa cried out to the LORD his God, telling him, "LORD, there is no one except for you to help between the powerful and the weak. So help us, LORD God, because we're depending on you and have come against this vast group in your name. LORD, you are our God. Let no mere mortal man defeat you!"

Verse ConceptsConfrontationBeggarsPower, God's SavingPower, HumanPrayer, As Asking GodSuccessProtection, From GodCrying To GodRelationship TroublesConflictTrust In RelationshipsBuilding Relationshipshelp

Meanwhile, somebody drew his bow and struck the king of Israel at a weak spot where his armor plates joined, so he instructed his chariot driver, "Turn around and take me out of the battle, because I've been severely wounded."

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmour

"What a help you are to the weak! How powerfully you deliver those without strength!

Verse ConceptsArmsHelp The WeakNo Help

All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?"

Verse ConceptsThe NeedyBad LeadershipBonesGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForPoverty, SpiritualRescueGod And The PoorCaring For OthersAnatomyWho Is Like God?

A poor man who oppresses the weak is like a rainstorm that destroys all the crops.

Verse ConceptsRich, ThePitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedNot Helping The Poor

Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, for I'm weak with love.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature Of

I charge you, young women of Jerusalem, "If you find my beloved, what are you to tell him? Tell him that I'm weak with love."

Verse ConceptsBeing In LoveFriendship And LovePassion

In answer, all of them will tell you, "You've also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!'

Verse ConceptsBecoming Like People

At the sound of the galloping hooves of his horses, at the rumbling of his chariots, the clatter of his wheels, fathers won't turn back for their children because their hands are weak,

Verse ConceptsNoiseWheelsFeeblenessCavalrySoundRumbling

Damascus will become weak. She will turn to flee, but panic will seize her. Distress and anguish will take hold of her like that of a woman giving birth.

Verse ConceptsLabour PainsUnable To Do Other Thingsdamascus

"How weak is your heart," declares the Lord GOD, "when you committed all of these deeds, the acts of an imperious whore!

Verse ConceptsLukewarmness

You haven't strengthened the weak, treated the sick, set broken bones, regathered the scattered, or looked for the lost. Instead, you've dominated them with brutal force and ruthlessness.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofdiseasesInjuryOppression, Nature OfUnkindnessWeakness, PhysicalBones BrokenWeak AnimalsNot Seeking PeopleReinstating PeopleOppressorsJoining Flesh And BonesLording ItLost PeopleNo HealingWeakness

and I was left alone to observe this magnificent vision. Nevertheless, no strength remained in me my face lost its color, and I became weak.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessActing AloneExpressions On FacesVisions From GodNo Strength Left

Bible Theasaurus

Cowardly (5 instances)
Decrepit (1 instance)
Degrading (3 instances)
Demoralizing (1 instance)
Faint (84 instances)
Feeble (165 instances)
Flimsy (2 instances)
Frail (15 instances)
Imperfect (6 instances)
Impotent (5 instances)
Infirm (27 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
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

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