KJV dictionary & concordance
Without sufficient power, strength, or ability; physically disabled.
Definition sources
First occurrence: John 5:3
Complete exact-word concordance
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folke, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the mouing of the water.
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I haue no man when the water is troubled, to put mee into the poole: but while I am comming, another steppeth downe before me.
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what meanes he is made whole,
¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
¶ And there sate a certaine man at Lystra, impotent in his feete, being a creeple from his mothers wombe, who neuer had walked.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Weake, Feeble.
Weak; feeble; wanting strength or power; unable by nature, or disabled by disease or accident to perform any act.
