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To box

πυκτεύωStrong’s G4438

pukteuō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

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

“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:”
1 Corinthians 9:26 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • i fight 1

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

Where it's used most
  • 1 Corinthians 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    πυκτεύω pukteuō · to box

    πυκτεύω (πύκτης, a pugilist), to box: 1Co.9:26.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “box” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    BOX, noun

    [Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box; Gr. a box and the tree.]

    1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings.
    2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room.
    3. The case which contains the mariner's compass.
    4. A money chest.
    All definitions and other forms of “box”
    1. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds.
    2. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand.
    3. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs.

    BOX, verb intransitive

    To fight with the fist; to combat with the hand or fist.

      BOX, verb transitive

      To inclose in a box; also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

      1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head.
      2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order.
      3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap; as, to box a maple.
      4. To sail round.

      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.