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Strong's #73: agon (pronounced ag-one')

from 71; properly, a place of assembly (as if led), i.e. (by implication) a contest (held there); figuratively, an effort or anxiety:--conflict, contention, fight, race.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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agōn

1) an assembly

1a) a place of assembly: especially an assembly met to see games

1b) the place of contest, the arena or stadium

2) the assembly of the Greeks at their national games

2a) hence the contest for a prize at their games

2b) generally, any struggle or contest

2c) a battle

2d) an action at law, trial

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G71

Citing in TDNT: 1:135, 20




Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

Philippians 1:30: "Having the same conflict which ye saw in me,"
Colossians 2:1: "that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and"
1 Thessalonians 2:2: "of God with much contention."
1 Timothy 6:12: "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,"
2 Timothy 4:7: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:"
Hebrews 12:1: "with patience the race that is set before us,"









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