Lexicon palé: wrestling, generally fight Original Word: πάλη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: palé Phonetic Spelling: (pal'-ay) Short Definition: a wrestling, struggle Definition: wrestling, a wrestling bout; hence: a struggle, fight, conflict, contest. HELPS word-Studies 3823 pálē – properly, "a wrestling bout; hence, a struggle, a conflict" (Souter). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom palló (to sway) Definitionwrestling, generally fight NASB Translationstruggle (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3823: πάληπάλη, παλης, ἡ (from πάλλω to vibrate, shake), from Homer down, wrestling (a contest between two in which each endeavors to throw the other, and which is decided when the victor is able θλίβειν καί κατέχειν his prostrate antagonist, i. e. hold him down with his hand upon his neck; cf. Plato, legg. 7, p. 796; Aristotle, rhet. 1, 5, 14, p. 1361b, 24; Heliodorus aethiop. 10, 31; (cf. Krause, Gymn. u. Agon. d. Griech. i. 1, p. 400ff; Guhl and Koner, p. 219f; Dict. of Antiq. under the word lucta)); the term is transferred to the struggle of Christians with the powers of evil: Ephesians 6:12.
Strong's struggle From pallo (to vibrate; another form for ballo); wrestling -- + wrestle. see GREEK ballo |
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