Impotent

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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, Act_14:8) or ‘without strength’ (Joh_5:3; Joh_5:7, Act_4:9). ‘When religion is at the stake,’ says Fuller (Holy State, ii. 19, p. 124), ‘there must be no lookers on (except impotent people, who also help by their prayers), and every one is bound to lay his shoulders to the work.’
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

im?pō̇-tent (ἀσθενέω, asthenéō, ἀδύνατος, adúnatos): The verb signifies ?to be without strength,? and derivatives of it are used in Joh_5:3, Joh_5:7 the King James Version and Act_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. In these cases it is the weakness of disease. In this sense the word is used by Shakespeare (Love's Labor Lost, V, ii, 864; Hamlet, I, ii, 29). The impotent folk referred to in the Epistle of Jeremy (Baruch 6:28) were those weak and feeble from age and want; compare ?impotent and snail-paced beggary? (Richard III, IV, iii, 53).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

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