lit., “strengthless” (see IMPOTENT), is translated “weak,” (a) of physical “weakness,” Mat 26:41<\/span>; Mar 14:38<\/span>; 1Co 1:27<\/span>; 1Co 4:10<\/span>; 1Co 11:30<\/span> (a judgment upon spiritual laxity in a church); 2Co 10:10<\/span>; 1Pe 3:7<\/span> (comparative degree); (b) in the spiritual sense, said of the rudiments of Jewish religion, in their inability to justify anyone, Gal 4:9<\/span>; of the Law, Heb 7:18<\/span>; in Rom 5:6<\/span>, RV, “weak” (AV, “without strength”), of the inability of man to accomplish his salvation; (c) morally or ethically, 1Co 8:7<\/span>, 1Co 8:10<\/span>; 1Co 9:22<\/span>; (d) rhetorically, of God’s actions according to the human estimate, 1Co 1:25<\/span>, “weakness,” lit., “the weak things of God.” See FEEBLE, SICK. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n lit., “not powerful,” is translated “weak” in Rom 15:1<\/span>, of the infirmities of those whose scruples arise through lack of faith (see Rom 14:22-23<\/span>), in the same sense as No. 1 (c); the change in the adjective (cp. Rom 14:1<\/span>) is due to the contrast with dunatoi, the “strong,” who have not been specifically mentioned as such in ch. 14. See IMPOSSIBLE. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to lack strength,” is used in much the same way as A, No. 1, and translated “being … weak” in Rom 4:19<\/span>, AV (RV, “being weakened”); Rom 8:3<\/span>; Rom 14:1-2<\/span> (in some texts, 1Co 8:9<\/span>); 2Co 11:21<\/span>, 2Co 11:29<\/span> (twice); 2Co 12:10<\/span>; 2Co 13:3-4<\/span>, 2Co 13:9<\/span>. See DISEASED, IMPOTENT, SICK. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n for which see INFIRMITY, is rendered “weakness,” of the body, 1Co 2:3<\/span>; 1Co 15:43<\/span>; 2Co 11:30<\/span>, RV; 2Co 12:5<\/span> (plural, RV), 2Co 12:9-10<\/span>, RV; Heb 11:34<\/span>; in 2Co 13:4<\/span>, “He was crucified through weakness” is said in respect of the physical sufferings to which Christ voluntarily submitted in giving Himself up to the death of the Cross. <\/p>\n Weak, Weakened, Weaker, Weakness lit., “strengthless” (see IMPOTENT), is translated “weak,” (a) of physical “weakness,” Mat 26:41; Mar 14:38; 1Co 1:27; 1Co 4:10; 1Co 11:30 (a judgment upon spiritual laxity in a church); 2Co 10:10; 1Pe 3:7 (comparative degree); (b) in the spiritual sense, said of the rudiments of Jewish religion, in their inability to … Continue reading “Weak, Weakened, Weaker, Weakness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"