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Loading... 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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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. For the same condition of the Lystra lame man the word adunatos is used, which is synonymous.
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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).
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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’).
Impotent: "to be without strength" (akin to A, No. 2), is translated "impotent folk" in Jhn 5:3, AV; cp. Jhn 5:7 (the present participle, lit., "being impotent"). See DISEASED, SICK, WEAK.
