Sick, Sickly, Sickness
Sick, Sickly, Sickness
lit., “to be weak, feeble” (a, negative, sthenos, “strength”), is translated “to be sick,” e.g., in Mat 10:8, “(the) sick;” Mat 25:36; Mat 25:39 in the best texts (some have B, No. 1); Mar 6:56; Luk 4:40; Luk 7:10 (RV omits the word); Luk 9:2; Joh 4:46; Joh 5:3, RV (AV, “impotent folk”); Joh 5:7; Joh 6:2, RV (AV, “were diseased”); 11:1-3,6; Act 9:37; Act 19:12; Phi 2:26-27; 2Ti 4:20; Jam 5:14. See DISEASED, B, No. 1, IMPOTENT, and, especially, WEAK.
primarily, “to work,” hence, from the effect of constant work, “to be weary,” Heb 12:3, is rendered “(him) that is sick,” in Jam 5:15, RV, AV “(the) sick.” The choice of this verb instead of the repetition of No. 1 (Jam 5:14, see above), is suggestive of the common accompaniment of “sickness,” “weariness of mind” (which is the meaning of this verb), which not infrequently hinders physical recovery; hence this special cause is here intimated in the general idea of “sickness.” In some mss. it occurs in Rev 2:3. In the Sept., Job 10:1; Job 17:2.
“to hold in, hold fast,” is used, in the Passive Voice, of “being seized or afficted by ills,” Act 28:8, “sick” (of the father of Publius, cp. Mat 4:24; Luk 4:38, “taken with”). See CONSTRAIN, No. 3.
Notes: (1) Noseo, “to be sick,” is used metaphorically of mental ailment, in 1Ti 6:4, “doting” (marg., “sick”). (2) The adverb kakos, “evilly ill,” with echo, “to hold, to have,” is rendered “to be sick,” in Mat 4:24, RV, “that were sick;” Mat 8:16; Mat 9:12; Mat 14:35; Mar 1:32, RV (AV, “diseased”); Mar 1:34; Mar 2:17; Mar 6:55; Luk 5:31; Luk 7:2. (3) For “sick of the palsy,” Luk 5:24; Act 9:33, see PALSY (sick of).
lit., “without strength,” hence, “feeble, weak,” is used of “bodily debility,” Mat 25:43 (for Mat 25:39, see A, No. 1), Mat 25:44; some texts have it in Luk 9:2 (the best omit it, the meaning being “to heal” in general); Luk 10:9; Act 5:15-16; in Act 4:9 it is rendered “impotent.” See FEEBLE, IMPOTENT, WEAK.
“feeble, sickly” (a, negative, rhonnumi, “to be strong”), is translated “sick” in Mat 14:14; Mar 16:18; “sick folk” in Mar 6:5; “that were sick” in Mar 6:13; “sickly” in 1Co 11:30, here also of the physical state. In the Sept., 1Ki 14:5; Mal 1:8.
“weakness, sickness” (akin to A, No. 1 and B, No. 1), is translated “sickness” in Joh 11:4. See DISEASE, No. 1, INFIRMITY, WEAKNESS.
see DISEASE, No. 3.