Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Not potent; lacking power, strength, or vigor, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. 2. (a.) Wanting the power of self-restraint; uncontrolled; ungovernable; violent. 3. (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren. 4. (n.) One who is impotent. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia IMPOTENT im'-po-tent (astheneo, adunatos): The verb signifies "to be without strength," and derivatives of it are used in John 5:3, 7 the King James Version and Acts 4:9 to characterize the paralyzed man at Bethesda and the cripple at the Temple gate. For the same condition of the Lystra lame man the word adunatos is used, which is synonymous. In these cases it is the weakness of disease. In this sense the word is used by Shakespeare (Love's Labor Lost, V, ii, 864; Hamlet, I, ii, 29). The impotent folk referred to in the Epistle of Jeremy (Baruch 6:28) were those weak and feeble from age and want; compare "impotent and snail-paced beggary" (Richard III, IV, iii, 53). Alexander Macalister

Multi-Version Concordance Impotent (5 Occurrences) John 5:3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. (KJV WBS) John 5:7 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. (KJV WBS) Acts 4:9 If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; (KJV ASV WBS) Acts 14:8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT) Isaiah 16:14 But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour. (See NAS)