Lexicon epagónizomai: to contend with or for Original Word: ἐπαγωνίζομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: epagónizomai Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee) Short Definition: I contend earnestly for Definition: I contend earnestly for. HELPS word-Studies 1864 epagōnízomai (from 1909 /epí, "focused on" and 73 /agṓn, "a contest, competition") – properly, to contend (literally, "struggle upon, appropriately"), i.e. with skill and commitment in opposing whatever is not of faith (God's persuasion). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom epi and agónizomaiDefinitionto contend with or for NASB Translationcontend earnestly (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1864: ἐπαγωνίζομαιἐπαγωνίζομαι; to contend: τίνι, for a thing, Jude 1:3. ( τῷ Ἀννιβα, against Hannibal, Plutarch, Fab. 23, 2; ταῖς νικαις, added a new contest to his victories, id. Cim. 13, 4; by others in different senses.)
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