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Koine Greek wordlink #106967

SR GNT Rom 4:19 ἀσθενήσας (asthenaʸsas) ‘and not having faltered in the faith he observed’ Strongs=7700 Lemma=astheneō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=aorist voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD Refers to Word #106914 Person=Abraham

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Only use of identical word form ἀσθενήσας (V-PAA·NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀσθενήσας’ (V-PAA·NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘having faltered’.

Rom 4:19 ‘and not having faltered in the faith he observed’ SR GNT Rom 4:19 word 3

OET-LV: 19 And not having _faltered in _the faith, he _observed the of _himself body already having _been _made _dead, a_hundred _year old about being, and the death of _the womb of _Sarra/(Sārāh), (ROM_4:19)

OET-RV: 19 He didn’t falter in his faith, seeing that his body was already infertile, being about a hundred years old, and with Sarah being past menopause. (ROM 4:19)

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 (1) other than ἀσθενήσας (V-PAA·NMS) with a gloss related to ‘faltered’

2 COR 11:21 ἠσθενήκαμεν (aʸsthenaʸkamen) V-IEA1··P ‘as that we have faltered in whatever but’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:21 word 7

OET-LV: 21 Concerning dishonour I _am _saying as that we have _faltered. In but whatever wishfully anyone may _be _daring (in foolishness I _am _speaking), I _am _daring also _I. (CO2_11:21)

OET-RV: 21 I’m talking about dishonour as if we were weak, but (speaking foolishly again), anything that anyone else is brave enough to do, then I will also be brave enough to match. (CO2 11:21)

Key: V=verb