Weaker
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 3:1
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 3:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
WEAK, adjective [G. The primary sense of the root is to yield, fail, give way, recede, or to be soft.]
1. Having little physical strength; feeble. Children are born weak; men are rendered weak by disease.
2. Infirm; not healthy; as a weak constitution.
3. Not able to bear a great weight; as a weak bridge; weak timber.
4. Not strong; not compact; easily broken; as a weak ship; a weak rope.
5. Not able to resist a violent attack; as a weak fortress.
6. Soft; pliant; not stiff.
7. Low; small; feeble; as a weak voice.
8. Feeble of mind; wanting spirit; wanting vigor of understanding; as a weak prince; a weak magistrate.
To think every thing disputable, si a proof of a weak mind and captious temper.
9. Not much impregnated with ingredients, or with things that excite action, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; as weak broth; weak tea; weak toddy; a weak solution; a weak decoction.
10. Not politically powerful; as a weak nation or state.
11. Not having force of authority or energy; as a weak government.
12. Not having moral force or power to convince; not well supported by truth or reason; as a weak argument.
13. Not well supported by argument; as weak reasoning.
14. Unfortified; accessible; impressible; as the weak side of a person.
15. Not having full conviction or confidence; as weak in faith.
16. weak land is land of a light thin soil. [I believe never used in New England.]
WEAK, verb transitive To make weak [Not used.]
WEAK, verb intransitive To become weak [Not used.]
WEAKEN, verb transitive
1. To lessen the strength of, or to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; as, to weaken the body; to weaken the mind; to weaken the hands of the magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument.
2. To reduce in strength or spirit; as, to weaken tea; to weaken any solution or decoction.
WEAKENED, participle passive Debilitated; enfeebled; reduced in strength.
WEAKENER, noun He or that which weakens.
WEAKENING, participle present tense Debilitating; enfeebling; reducing the strength or vigor of any thing.
WEAK-HEARTED, adjective Having little courage; dispirited.
WEAKLING, noun A feeble creature.
WEAKLY, adverb
1. Feebly; with little physical strength; faintly; not forcible; as a fortress weakly defended.
2. With want of efficacy.
Was plighted faith so weakly seald above?
3. With feebleness of mind or intellect; indiscretely; injuriously.
Beneath pretended justice weakly fall.
4. Timorously; with little courage or fortitude.
WEAKLY, adjective Not strong of constitution; infirm; as a weakly woman; a man of a weakly constitution.
WEAKNESS, noun
1. Want of physical strength; want of force or vigor; feebleness; as the weakness of a child; the weakness of an invalid; the weakness of a wall or bridge, or of thread or cordage.
2. Want of sprightliness.
Soft, without weakness; without glaring, gay.
3. Want of steadiness.
By such a review, we shall discern and strengthen our weaknesses.
4. Infirmity; unhealthiness; as weakness of constitution.
5. Want of moral force or effect upon the mind; as the weakness of evidence; the weakness of arguments.
6. Want of judgment; feebleness of mind; foolishness.
All wickedness is weakness
7. Defect; failing; fault; with a plural.
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character.
WEAKSIDE, noun [weak and side.] Foible; deficience; failing; infirmity.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 3:1
- Last Reference: 1 Peter 3:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: