Quick Definition
I am weary, ill
Strong's Definition
properly, to toil, i.e. (by implication) to tire (figuratively, faint, sicken)
Derivation: apparently a primary verb;
KJV Usage: faint, sick, be wearied
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
κάμνω; 2 aorist ἔκαμον; perfect κέκμηκα;
1. to grow weary, be weary (so from Homer down): Rev_2:3 Rec.; Heb_12:3.
2. to be sick: Jas_5:15 (Sophocles (Herodotus), Aristophanes, Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Diodorus, Lucian, others).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
κάμνω kamnō 2x
to tire with exertion, labor to weariness; to be wearied, tired out, exhausted, be discouraged, Heb_12:3 ; to labor under disease, be sick, Jas_5:15
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
κάμνω ,
[in LXX : Job_10:1 ( H6962 ni .) Job_17:2 , Wis_4:16 ; Wis_15:9 , 4Ma_3:8 ; 4Ma_7:13 * ;]
1. to work; hence, from the effect of continued work,
2. to be weary: Heb_12:3
3. to be sick: Jas_5:15 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
κάμνω [page 320]
P Giss I. 47 .8 (time of Hadrian) ὡς μὴ κάμνειν τὸν φοροῦντα αὐτόν , BGU III. 884 i. 11 (ii/iii A.D.) καὶ μὴ λίαν οὕτωι κ̣α̣μ̣ω̣, P Flor III. 382 .29 (A.D. 222 3) τοῖς ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη βεβιω ]κόσιν καὶ ἐν ταῖ [ς λει ]του [ργ ]ίαις κεκμηκόσιν αἱ προτε [τα ]γ̣μέναι θεῖαι δι [ατάξεις , P Oxy XII. 1414 .27 (A.D. 270 5) κάμε ἄξια τοῦ ἐπάν [ω χρόνου , labour in a manner worthy of the past (Edd.). Note the compound in PSI I. 47 .2 (vi/A.D.?) ἀπέκαμον τὸ λοιπὸν κεκτημένων ἐν τῇ ὑμῶν πεδιάδει . The subst. occurs in P Tebt II. 314 .4 (ii/A.D.) ὅσον κάμ [α ]τον ἤνεγκα , how much trouble I had, P Fay 106 .19 ( c. A.D. 140) ὅπ̣[ως δυ ]νηθῶ ἐμαυτὸν ἀνακτήσα [σθαι ἀ ]πὸ τῶν καμάτων , so that I may be able to recover from the effects of my labours (Edd.), OGIS 717 .14 (building of a temple A.D. 261 268) ταῦτα πάντα ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν καμάτων εὐχαριστήσας τῷ Σαράπιδι τῶ Μινιεῖ . For the derived sense am ill, as in Jas_5:15 , cf. Musonius p. 20 .8 θεραπείαν τῶν καμνόντων . In MGr κάμνω , κάμω , κάνω , = make, do, generally with the added idea of toil.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
κάμνω [Etym: lengthd. from the Root ΚΑΜ] trans. "to work" of smith's work, σκῆπτρον, τὸ μὲν Ἥφαιστος κάμε which he "wrought", Il. ; κ. νῆας Od. Mid. "to win by toil", τὰς (sc. γυναῖκας) αὐτοὶ καμόμεσθα Il. "to work or till by labour", Od. intr. "to work, labour", Thuc. :—then, "to be weary", ἀνδρὶ δὲ κεκμηῶτι μένος οἶνος ἀέξει Il. ; οὐδέ τι γυῖα κάμνει nor "is he weary in" limb, id=Il. ; περὶ δ᾽ ἔγχεϊ χεῖρα καμεῖται "he will have his" hand "weary" in grasping the spear, id=Il. :—c. part., κάμνει πολεμίζων, ἐλαύνων "is weary" of fighting, rowing, id=Il. ; οὐκ ἔκαμον τανύων "I found" no "trouble" in stringing the bow, i. e. did it without trouble, Od. ; οὔτοι καμοῦμαι λέγουσα "I shall" never "be tired" of saying, Aesch. , etc. "to be sick or ill, suffer under illness", οἱ κάμνοντες "the sick", Hdt. , etc.; so, κάμνειν νόσον Eur. ; κ. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς Hdt. generally, "to suffer, be distressed or afflicted", στρατοῦ καμόντος Aesch. ; οὐ καμεῖ "will" not "have to complain", Soph. ; οὐκ ἴσον καμὼν ἐμοὶ λύπης not "having borne" an equal share of grief with me, id=Soph. οἱ καμόντες (aor. part.) "those who have done their work", Lat. defuncti, i. e. "the dead", Hom. ; so, κεκμηκότες Eur. , Thuc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
κάμνω
[in LXX: Job.10:1 (קוּט ni.) Job.17:2, Wis.4:16 15:9, 4Ma.3:8 4Mac 7:13 * ;]
__1. to work; hence, from the effect of continued work,
__2. to be weary: Heb.12:3
__3. to be sick: Jas.5:15.†
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