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Koine Greek wordlink #18283

SR GNT Mat 25:36 ἠσθένησα (aʸsthenaʸsa) ‘and you_all clothed me I ailed and you_all visited me’ Strongs=7700 Lemma=astheneō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=aorist voice=active person=1st number=singular
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #18258

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Only use of identical word form ἠσθένησα (V-IAA1··S) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἠσθένησα’ (V-IAA1··S) is always and only glossed as ‘I ailed’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘astheneō’ have 17 different glosses: ‘are faltering’, ‘have faltered’, ‘having ailed’, ‘having faltered’, ‘is ailing’, ‘is faltering’, ‘may_be faltering’, ‘was ailing’, ‘I am faltering’, ‘I may_be faltering’, ‘I ailed’, ‘he is ailing’, ‘he ailed’, ‘it was faltering’, ‘ailing’, ‘ailing ones’, ‘faltering’.

Greek words (3) other than ἠσθένησα (V-IAA1··S) with a gloss related to ‘ailed’

ACTs 9:37 ἀσθενήσασαν (asthenaʸsasan) V-PAA·AFS ‘in days those having ailed she to die_off having washed’ SR GNT Acts 9:37 word 7

OET-LV: 37 And it _became in the those days, she having _ailed to _die _off. And having _washed her they _put in an_upper _room. (ACT_9:37)

OET-RV: 37 Around that time she got sick and died. After washing her body, they placed it in an upper room, (ACT 9:37)

PHP 2:26 ἠσθένησεν (aʸsthenaʸsen) V-IAA3··S ‘because you_all heard that he ailed’ SR GNT Php 2:26 word 15

OET-LV: 26 since longing _for he _was for _all for _you _all, and distressing because you _all _heard that he _ailed. (PHP_2:26)

OET-RV: 26 He’s been longing to see you all again and was upset that you heard that he’d been sick (PHP 2:26)

PHP 2:27 ἠσθένησεν (aʸsthenaʸsen) V-IAA3··S ‘also for he ailed nearly to death but’ SR GNT Php 2:27 word 3

OET-LV: 27 For/Because also he _ailed nearly to _death, but the god showed _mercy _to him, not and him only, but also me, in _order _that not sorrow on sorrow I _may _have. (PHP_2:27)

OET-RV: 27 because he nearly died from it, but God showed mercy to him, and not only to him but also to me that I wouldn’t have yet another hardship to go through. (PHP 2:27)

Key: V=verb