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Strong's #3119 - μαλακία
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- softness
- in the NT infirmity, debility, bodily weakness, sickness
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μᾰλᾰκ-ία, Ion. -ιη, ἡ, (μαλακός)
1. softness, Hp. Aër. 20: hence, of persons, moral weakness, opp. καρτερία, Arist. EN 1150a31, cf. Hdt. 6.11, Th. 1.122, Lys. 10.11, X. Smp. 8.8, D. 11.22, etc.; τῇ σαυτοῦ ζυγομάχει μ. Men. 201.5.
2. = κιναιδεία, Ph. 2.306, Plu. CG 4, D.C. 58.4.
3. weakliness, sickness, LXX Genesis 42:4, Matthew 4:23, Ps.- Hdt. Vit.Hom. 36, POxy. 1151.27 (v A. D.); μ. σώματος, opp. ψυχῆς, Phld. Mus. p.30 K. II calmness of the sea, malacia ac tranquillitas, Caes. BG 3.15.3.
μαλακία, μαλακίας, ἡ (μαλακός);
1. properly, softness (from Herodotus down).
2. in the N. T. (like ἀσθένεια, ἀρρωστία) infirmity, debility, bodily weakness, sickness (the Sept. for חלִי, disease, Deuteronomy 7:15; Deuteronomy 28:61; Isaiah 38:9, etc.); joined with νόσος, Matthew 4:23; Matthew 9:35; Matthew 10:1.
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μαλακία -ας , ἡ
(< μαλακός ),
[in LXX chiefly for H2483 Deuteronomy 7:15; Deuteronomy 28:61, Isaiah 38:9; Isaiah 53:3, al.;]
1. prop., softness, effeminacy (Hdt., Thuc., al).
2. In NT, as in LXX, = ἀσθένεια , weakness, sickness: νόσος καὶ μ ., Matthew 4:23; Matthew 9:35; Matthew 10:1.†
SYN.: see ἀσθένεια G769.
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μαλακία, in the sense of bodily weakness, is found conjoined with νόσος, as in Matthew 4:23 al., in the Christian amulets P Oxy VIII. 1151.27 (v/A.D. ?) ὁ ἰασάμενος πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν, ἴασαι καὶ ἐπίσκεψαι καὶ τὴν δούλην σου Ἰωαννίαν, BGU III. 954.12 (c. vi/A.D.) (= Selections, p. 133) πᾶσαν δὲ νόσον καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν ἄφελε ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ. Cf. Menander Fragm. p. 58 μηκέτ᾽ αἰτιῶ θεόν, | ἤδη δὲ τῇ σαυτοῦ ζυγομάχει μαλακίᾳ, and see Hobart, p. 63. For the verb μαλακίζομαι, as in Genesis 42:38 al., cf. syll 850.24 (B.C. 173–2) εἰ δὲ μαλακισθείη Σωτήριχος, ὃ μὴ γίνοιτο, πλεῖον διμήνου, ἐπαποδότω τοῦ πλείονος χρόνου Σωτήριχος Ἀμύντᾳ, and Preisigke 158 ἐμαλακίσθη καὶ ὁ θεὸς αὐτῶι ἐβοήθησε αὐθημερή.
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