noun · feminine
malakias
Strong’sG3119
weakness, illness
stem malaki-3 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μαλακία -ας, ἡ
(< μαλακός), [in LXX chiefly for חֳלִי, De 7:15 28:61, Is 38:9 53:3, al.;]
SYN.: v.s. ἀσθένεια.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3119 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmal-ak-ee'-ah
softness, i.e. enervation (debility)
Fromfrom G3120;
King Jamesdisease.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
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}.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | malakias | malakiais |
| object accusative | malakian3×μαλακίαν | malakiain |
| direct address vocative | malakiar | malakiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | malakiau | malakiaiu |
| to, for dative | malakia | malakiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
malakia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
malakian“sickness”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 4:23… kai therapeuarōntos pantan nosan kai pantan malakian en to lao.… kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
Matthew 9:35… kai therapeuarōntos pantan nosan kai pantan malakian.… kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness.
Matthew 10:1… kai therapeuarō pantan nosan kai pantan malakian.… out and heal every disease and sickness.