What does μαλακία (malakía) mean in the Bible?
μαλακία (malakía): Weakness or sickness, often paired with disease to emphasize physical debility or infirmity in healing contexts.
Greek · G3119
μαλακία
μαλακία (malakía): Weakness or sickness, often paired with disease to emphasize physical debility or infirmity in healing contexts.
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μαλακίαG3119
Pronunciationmalakía
What does μαλακία (malakía) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G3119?
The BSB source-word alignment has 3 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include sickness (3).
Where does μαλακία (malakía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 4:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (3).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itsickness3×Matthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 10:1
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowMatthew 4:23
Aligned rows3
Books represented1
Matthew3
Source forms
μαλακίαν3xmalakianMatthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 10:1
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular3xMatthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Matthew 10:1
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Weakness or sickness, often paired with disease to emphasize physical debility or infirmity in healing contexts.
Strong'sG3119
Lexical occurrences3 versesGreek text appearances3 timesWord forms1 form3 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
sickness
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Weakness or sickness, often paired with disease to emphasize physical debility or infirmity in healing contexts.
(μαλακός), [in LXX chiefly for חֳלִי Deu.7:15 28:61, Isa.38:9 53:3, al. ;]
1prop., softness, effeminacy (Hdt., Thuc., al).
Synonymssee: ἀσθένεια
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
3 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Matthew 4:23Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
μαλακίανmalakian
weakness, illness
Read verseMatthew 9:35Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
μαλακίανmalakian
weakness, illness
Read verseMatthew 10:1Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
μαλακίαν.malakian
weakness, illness
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms3Case patternAccusative (3)Number patternSingular (3)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Accusative · Singular · FeminineMatt 4:23 · Matt 9:35 · Matt 10:13×
Word Origins
μαλακία is built from this root: