Lexical Summary palē: wrestling, generally fight Original Word: πάληTransliteration: palē Phonetic Spelling: (pal'-ay) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: wrestling, generally fight Meaning: wrestling, generally fight Strong's Concordance struggleFrom pallo (to vibrate; another form for ballo); wrestling -- + wrestle. see GREEK ballo Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 wordlucta)); the term is transferred to the struggle of Christians with the powers of evil: Ephesians 6:12. |
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