Struggle
ἄθλησιςStrong’s G0119athlēsis
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Athlēsis is the Greek word usually translated “conflict”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;”
Meaning
Usually translated “conflict”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- conflict 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hebrews 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
ἄθλησις athlēsis · struggle
ἄθλησις, -εως, ἡ (ἀθλέω), a contest, combat, esp. of athletes; figuratively, a struggle: Heb.10:32 (for exx., see MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “struggle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRUGGLE, verb intransitive
[This word may be formed on the root of stretch, right, etc. which signifies to strain; or more directly on the same elements in Latin, to wrinkle.]
- Properly, to strive, or to make efforts with a twisting or with contortions of the body.
- To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend; as, to struggle to save life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle against the stream; to struggle with adversity.
- To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
All definitions and other forms of “struggle”
STRUGGLE, noun
- Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.
- Contest; contention; strife.
- Agony; contortions of extreme distress.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.