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- IMPOTENT im'-po-tent (astheneo, adunatos): The verb signifies "to be without strength," and derivatives of it are used in John 5:3,7 the King James Version and Acts 4:9 to characterize the paralyzed man at Bethesda and the cripple at the Temple gate.
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1. Want of strength or power, animal or intellectual; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility; defect of power, natural or adventitious, to perform any thing. Some were poor by the impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots and cripples.
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Lacking power, strength, or vigor; helpless. Impotence in the KJV never refers to sexual inability. Modern translations replace impotent with other terms: cripple (Acts 4:9 NIV); disabled (John 5:3 NIV); invalid (John 5:3 NRSV); sick (John 5:3,John 5:3, 5:7; Acts 4:9 NAS).
One who is impotent. im'-po-tent (astheneo, adunatos): The verb signifies "to be without strength," and derivatives of it are used in John 5:3, 7 the King James Version and Acts 4:9 to characterize the paralyzed man at Bethesda and the cripple at the Temple gate.
impotence. —The single instance of our Lord’s miracles specifically classified under this head is recorded in John 5:2-9 , where the sufferer is described as ὁ ἀσθενῶν (Authorized Version ‘the impotent man,’ Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 ‘the sick man’).
1. Weak; feeble; wanting strength or power; unable by nature, or disabled by disease or accident to perform any act. I know thou wast not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save. 2. Wanting the power of propagation, as males. 3. Wanting the power of restraint; not having the command over; as impotent of tongue. IM'POTENT, noun One who is feeble ...
IMPOTENT. This word, now obsolescent in common speech, means literally ‘without strength.’ It is used as the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Gr. words which mean ‘without power’ ( Bar 6:28 , Acts 14:8) or ‘without strength’ (John 5:3; John 5:7, Acts 4:9).
