G75 – agonizomai – ἀγωνίζομαι – to compete for a prize; fig. to struggle, strive, wrestle
- Strong’s ID:
- G75
- Greek Word:
- ἀγωνίζομαι
- Transliteration:
- agonizomai
- Pronunciation:
- ag-o-nid’-zom-ahee
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Usage Count:
- 7
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- Find “agonizomai” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
1) to compete for a prize
2) figuratively, to struggle, strive, wrestle
verb form of G73
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G73; to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to accomplish something):—fight, labor fervently, strive.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to enter a contest: contend in the gymnastic games
2) to contend with adversaries, fight
3) metaphorically to contend, struggle, with difficulties and dangers
4) to endeavour with strenuous zeal, strive: to obtain something
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.