Strong G73ἀγών
fight
- Transliteration
- agōn
- Pronunciation
- ag-one'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From G71; properly a place of assembly (as if led) that is (by implication) a contest (held there); figuratively an effort or anxiety: - conflict contention fight race.
Detailed definition
ἀγών, -ῶνος, ὁ
(ἄγω), [in LXX: Isa.7:13 (לאה), Est.4:17, Wis.4:2 10:12, II Mac.6, 4Mac.5 *;]
1. a gathering, esp. for games.
2. a place of assembly.
3. a contest, struggle, trial; metaphorically (MM, VGT, see word),
__(a) of the Christian life as a contest and struggle: Php.1:30, 1Th.2:2, 1Ti.6:12, 2Ti.4:7 Heb.12:1;
__(b) solicitude, anxiety: Col.2:1.
† (AS)
(ἄγω), [in LXX: Isa.7:13 (לאה), Est.4:17, Wis.4:2 10:12, II Mac.6, 4Mac.5 *;]
1. a gathering, esp. for games.
2. a place of assembly.
3. a contest, struggle, trial; metaphorically (MM, VGT, see word),
__(a) of the Christian life as a contest and struggle: Php.1:30, 1Th.2:2, 1Ti.6:12, 2Ti.4:7 Heb.12:1;
__(b) solicitude, anxiety: Col.2:1.
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G73 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- fight2
- conflict2
- contention1
- race1
- the1
First verses
- Philippians 1:30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
- Colossians 2:1For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:2But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
- 1 Timothy 6:12Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
- 2 Timothy 4:7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
- Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀγών [ᾰ], ῶνος, ὁ,
Aeolic dialect ἄγωνος, ου, ὁ, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 121 (also E.cited in Scholia Il. “Oxy.” 1087.60))]; Elean dative plural ἀγώνοιρ[Refs (“GDI” 1172.26)]: (ἄγω):—gathering, assembly, ἵζανεν εὐρὺν ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.258; λῦτο δ᾽ ἀ. 24.1, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.200; νεῶν ἐν ἀγῶνι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.428, compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1335.57)]: especially assembly met to see games, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23)]; Ὑπερβορέων ἀ. Pi [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“P.” 10.30; κοινοὺς ἀ. θέντες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 845.)]
2 place of contest, lists, course, βήτην ἐς μέσσον ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.685, compare 531, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.260, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 312, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.114, and especially 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.50: proverbial, ἔξω ἀγῶνος)] out of the lists or course, i.e. beside the mark, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.44, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 21: _plural_, κατ᾽ ἀγῶνας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.259.)]
II assembly of the Greeks at the national games, ὁ ἐν Ὀλυμπίῃ ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.127; ὁ Ὀλυμπικὸς ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 583; Ἑλλάδος πρόσχημ᾽ ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 682, compare 699)]:— hence, contest for a prize at the games, ἀ. γυμνικός, ἱππικός, μουσικός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 658a, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1163, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.104; οἱ τῶν λαμπάδων ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 57.1)]; ἀ. τῶν ἀνδρῶν contest in which the chorus was composed of men, opposed to to παίδων or ἀγενείων (which see), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.18, etc.)]; ἀ. στεφανηφόρος or στεφανίτης contest where the prize is a crown, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.102, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1357a19)]; ἀ. χάλκεος, where it is a shield of brass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.22; ἀ. θεματικός “IG” 14.739 (from Naples))]; ἀργυρίτης δωρίτης[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.820d:)] —hence many phrases, ἀγῶνα καταστῆσαι establish a contest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.1; τιθέναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.8; ποιεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.104; οὐ λόγων τοὺς ἀ. προθήσοντες [prev. author] 3.67; προηγόρευέ τε ἀγῶνας καὶ ἆθλα προυτίθει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.26; προκαλούμενος ἑαυτὸν εἰς ἀ. [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.3.17)]; τοὺς ἀ. νικᾶν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 3.7.1; ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.301)]; of contests in general, εἰς ἀ. λόγων ἀφικέσθαι τινί[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 335a)]; πρὸς τίν᾽ ἀγῶνας τιθέμεσθ᾽ ἀρετῆ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 863 (Lyric poetry); ἀ. σοφίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 883.)]
III generally, struggle, πολλοὺς ἀ. ἐξιών, of Hercules, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 159; ξιφηφόρος ἀ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 584; εἰς ἀ. τῷδε συμπεσὼν μάχης 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 20, etc; ὁ Φίλιππος, πρὸς ὀν ἦν ἡμῖν ὁ ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.67; ποιέειν ἢ παθεῖν πρόκειται ἀ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.11; ἀληθείην ἀσκέειν ἀ. μέγιστος [prev. work] 209: _plural_, πραγμάτων ἀγῶνας κεκτημένων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 21; ἄπορος ἀ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.2; ὅπλων ἔκειτ᾽ ἀ. πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 936; and without περί, τῶν Ἀχιλλείων ὅπλων ἀ. [prev. work] 1240)]; ψυχῆς ἀ. τὸν προκείμενον πέρι struggle for life and death, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 847, compare “Ph.” 1330; πολλοὺς ἀ. δραμέονται περὶ σφέων αὐτῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102; λόγων γὰρ οὐ.. ἁγών, ἀλλὰ σῆς ψυχῆς πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1492, compareinfr. 5.)]
III.2 battle, action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89, etc.)]
III.3 action at law, trial, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.21, etc., compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 677, 744; εἰς ἀγῶνα καθιστάναι ἀνθρώπους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 24c, “R.” 494e; περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς εἰς ἀγῶνα καταστῆσαί τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 8.4.)]
III.4 speech delivered in court or before an assembly or ruler, πρεσβευτικοὶ ἀ.[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.32.4; τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους εἰρηκότος ἀ. τούς τε δικανικοὺς καὶ τοὺς δημηγορικούς 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 1.3, compare “OGI” 567 (Attalia, 2nd c.AD))]; ἀ. ἐσχηματισμένοι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 8.1, +others)]
III.4.b Rhet., main argument of a speech (opposed to προοίμιον, ἐπίλογος), in plural, Syr.[Refs (“in Hermog.” 2.111, 170R., compare “Proll. Hermog.” cited in Rhetores Graeci 4.12 W.)]
III.5 metaphorically, οὐ λόγων ἔθ᾽ ἁγών now is not the time for words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 588)]; οὐχ ἕδρας ἀ. 'tis no time for sitting still, [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 1291)]; ἀ. πρόφασιν οὐ δέχεται the crisis admits no dallying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 331, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 421d, “Lg.” 751d)]; μέγας ὁ ἀ... τὸ χρηστὸν ἢ κακὸν γενέσθαι the issue is great.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 608b, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 235)]; οὐ περί τινος ὁ ἀ. the question is not about.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.44.)]
III.6 mental struggle, anxiety, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.71, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.56.4, NT.Col.2.1: in _plural_, τρόμοι καὶ ἀ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 7.)]
III.6.b of speakers, vehemence, power, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 15.1 compare 26.3.)]
IV personified, Ἀγών, divinity of the contest, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.26.3.)]
Aeolic dialect ἄγωνος, ου, ὁ, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 121 (also E.cited in Scholia Il. “Oxy.” 1087.60))]; Elean dative plural ἀγώνοιρ[Refs (“GDI” 1172.26)]: (ἄγω):—gathering, assembly, ἵζανεν εὐρὺν ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.258; λῦτο δ᾽ ἀ. 24.1, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.200; νεῶν ἐν ἀγῶνι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.428, compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1335.57)]: especially assembly met to see games, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23)]; Ὑπερβορέων ἀ. Pi [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“P.” 10.30; κοινοὺς ἀ. θέντες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 845.)]
2 place of contest, lists, course, βήτην ἐς μέσσον ἀ.[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.685, compare 531, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.260, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 312, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.114, and especially 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.50: proverbial, ἔξω ἀγῶνος)] out of the lists or course, i.e. beside the mark, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.44, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 21: _plural_, κατ᾽ ἀγῶνας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.259.)]
II assembly of the Greeks at the national games, ὁ ἐν Ὀλυμπίῃ ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.127; ὁ Ὀλυμπικὸς ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 583; Ἑλλάδος πρόσχημ᾽ ἀ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 682, compare 699)]:— hence, contest for a prize at the games, ἀ. γυμνικός, ἱππικός, μουσικός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 658a, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1163, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.104; οἱ τῶν λαμπάδων ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 57.1)]; ἀ. τῶν ἀνδρῶν contest in which the chorus was composed of men, opposed to to παίδων or ἀγενείων (which see), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.18, etc.)]; ἀ. στεφανηφόρος or στεφανίτης contest where the prize is a crown, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.102, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1357a19)]; ἀ. χάλκεος, where it is a shield of brass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.22; ἀ. θεματικός “IG” 14.739 (from Naples))]; ἀργυρίτης δωρίτης[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.820d:)] —hence many phrases, ἀγῶνα καταστῆσαι establish a contest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.1; τιθέναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.8; ποιεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.104; οὐ λόγων τοὺς ἀ. προθήσοντες [prev. author] 3.67; προηγόρευέ τε ἀγῶνας καὶ ἆθλα προυτίθει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.26; προκαλούμενος ἑαυτὸν εἰς ἀ. [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.3.17)]; τοὺς ἀ. νικᾶν[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 3.7.1; ἐν τοῖς ἀγῶσι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.301)]; of contests in general, εἰς ἀ. λόγων ἀφικέσθαι τινί[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 335a)]; πρὸς τίν᾽ ἀγῶνας τιθέμεσθ᾽ ἀρετῆ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 863 (Lyric poetry); ἀ. σοφίας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 883.)]
III generally, struggle, πολλοὺς ἀ. ἐξιών, of Hercules, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 159; ξιφηφόρος ἀ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 584; εἰς ἀ. τῷδε συμπεσὼν μάχης 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 20, etc; ὁ Φίλιππος, πρὸς ὀν ἦν ἡμῖν ὁ ἀ. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.67; ποιέειν ἢ παθεῖν πρόκειται ἀ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.11; ἀληθείην ἀσκέειν ἀ. μέγιστος [prev. work] 209: _plural_, πραγμάτων ἀγῶνας κεκτημένων 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 21; ἄπορος ἀ. 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.2; ὅπλων ἔκειτ᾽ ἀ. πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 936; and without περί, τῶν Ἀχιλλείων ὅπλων ἀ. [prev. work] 1240)]; ψυχῆς ἀ. τὸν προκείμενον πέρι struggle for life and death, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 847, compare “Ph.” 1330; πολλοὺς ἀ. δραμέονται περὶ σφέων αὐτῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.102; λόγων γὰρ οὐ.. ἁγών, ἀλλὰ σῆς ψυχῆς πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1492, compareinfr. 5.)]
III.2 battle, action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89, etc.)]
III.3 action at law, trial, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.21, etc., compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 677, 744; εἰς ἀγῶνα καθιστάναι ἀνθρώπους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 24c, “R.” 494e; περὶ τῆς ψυχῆς εἰς ἀγῶνα καταστῆσαί τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 8.4.)]
III.4 speech delivered in court or before an assembly or ruler, πρεσβευτικοὶ ἀ.[Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.32.4; τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους εἰρηκότος ἀ. τούς τε δικανικοὺς καὶ τοὺς δημηγορικούς 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Amm.” 1.3, compare “OGI” 567 (Attalia, 2nd c.AD))]; ἀ. ἐσχηματισμένοι[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Ars Rhetorica” 8.1, +others)]
III.4.b Rhet., main argument of a speech (opposed to προοίμιον, ἐπίλογος), in plural, Syr.[Refs (“in Hermog.” 2.111, 170R., compare “Proll. Hermog.” cited in Rhetores Graeci 4.12 W.)]
III.5 metaphorically, οὐ λόγων ἔθ᾽ ἁγών now is not the time for words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 588)]; οὐχ ἕδρας ἀ. 'tis no time for sitting still, [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 1291)]; ἀ. πρόφασιν οὐ δέχεται the crisis admits no dallying, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 331, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 421d, “Lg.” 751d)]; μέγας ὁ ἀ... τὸ χρηστὸν ἢ κακὸν γενέσθαι the issue is great.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 608b, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 235)]; οὐ περί τινος ὁ ἀ. the question is not about.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.44.)]
III.6 mental struggle, anxiety, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.71, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.56.4, NT.Col.2.1: in _plural_, τρόμοι καὶ ἀ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 7.)]
III.6.b of speakers, vehemence, power, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 15.1 compare 26.3.)]
IV personified, Ἀγών, divinity of the contest, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.26.3.)]