Words

μαλακία G3119

Home gloss

ailment

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

mischief / harm / weakness

Note

Softness of body, sickness: Matt 4:23; 9:35; 10:1 "every disease and every ailment." "Weakness" is left for ἀσθένεια, the noun of ἀσθενής "weak." One root with μαλακίζομαι "be ailing"

Rulings

2, 95

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 42 (Septuagint)

• 42:4 But Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, he did not send with his brothers, for he said, "Lest an ailment befall him."

Genesis 44 (Septuagint)

• 44:29 If then you take this one too from my face, and an ailment befalls him on the way, then you will bring down my old age with grief to Hades.'