G3119: μαλακία (malakía)

G3119 μαλακία (malakía)

Greek

Quick Definition

μαλακία, ας, ἡ n.f. weakness, illness

Strong's Definition

from 3120; softness, i.e. enervation (debility)

KJV Usage: disease

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

μαλακία (G3119)

noun, f. | -ας | μαλακός

23.154 · Physiological Processes and States · Sickness, Disease, Weakness

disease, sickness a state of weakness resulting from disease

MAT 4:23 · MAT 9:35 · MAT 10:1

¹ It is possible that μαλακία should be regarded as essentially synonymous with ἀσθένεια (23.143).

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μαλακία, -as, 7, (μαλακός) : 1. prop. softness [fr. Hat. down]. 2. in the N. T. (like ἀσθένεια, ἀρρωaria) infirmity, debility, bodily weakness, sickness, (Sept. for on, disease, Deut. vii. 15; xxvii. 61; Is. xxxviii. 9, etc.) ; joined with νόσος, Mt. iv. 23; ix. 35; x. 1.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μαλακία malakia 3x

softness; listlessness, indisposition, weakness, infirmity of body, Mt. 4:23; 9:35; 10:1*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

μαλακία -ας, ἡ

(< μαλακός), [in LXX chiefly for חֳלִי, De 7:15 28:61, Is 38:9 53:3, al.;]

prop., softness, effeminacy (Hdt., Thuc., al.).

In NT, as in LXX, = ἀσθένεια, weakness, sickness: νόσος καὶ μ., Mt 4:23 9:35 10:1.†

SYN.: v.s. ἀσθένεια.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μαλακία, in the sense of bodily weakness, is found conjoined with νόσος, as in Mt 438 αἱ, in the Christian amulets P Oxy VIII. II51*? (v/A.D.?) ὃ ἰασάμενος πᾶσαν νόσον kal πᾶσαν μαλακίαν, ἴασαι καὶ ἐπίσκεψαι καὶ τὴν δούλην σου ᾿Τωαννίαν, BGU III. 95412 (c. vi/a.D.) (= Selections, p. 133) πᾶσαν δὲ νόσον kal 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 Gen 4258 a/., cf. Sy// 850%4 (B.C. 173-2) εἰ δὲ μαλακισθείη Σωτήριχος, ὃ μὴ γίνοιτο, πλεῖον διμήνου, ἐπαποδότω τοῦ πλείονος χρόνου Σωτήριχος ᾿Αμύντα, and Preisigke 158 ἐμαλακίσθη καὶ ὁ θεὸς αὐτῶι ἐβοήθησε αὐθημερή.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

μαλακία (malakia) — sickness. μᾰλᾰκ-ία, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, (μαλακός) softness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]“Aër.” 20: hence, of persons, moral weakness, opposed to καρτερία, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. ={κιναιδεία}, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

3. weakliness, sickness, [LXX+NT+5th c.BC+]; μ. σώματος, opposed to ψυχῆς, [Refs 1st c.BC+]

II. calmness of the sea, malacia ac tranquillitas, [Refs] μᾰλᾰκ-ια, τά, cephalopod mollusca, i.e. water-animals of soft substance, without external shells, [Refs 4th c.BC+]

II. see at {μαλάχιον}.