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Struggle

πάληStrong’s G3823

palē

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Palē is the Greek word usually translated “wrestling”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ephesians 6:12 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “wrestling”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • wrestling 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ephesians 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    πάλη palē · struggle

    πάλη, -ης, ἡ (πάλλω, to sway) wrestling, hence, generally, fight, contest: figuratively, of the spiritual combat of Christians, Eph.6:12.† (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.]

    1. Properly, to strive, or to make efforts with a twisting or with contortions of the body.
    2. 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.
    3. 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

      1. Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avoid an evil; properly, a violent effort with contortions of the body.
      2. Contest; contention; strife.
      3. 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.