ἀνταγωνίζομαι
antagōnízomai · G464 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to struggle against
To engage in an intense struggle against something or someone
ExamplesHebrews 12:4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with+ ἁμαρτίαsin 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- μάχομαι máchomai · G3164 · to clash severely, struggle, fight
- Greek verb for engaging in combat or conflict, both literal and figurative; lacks the specific 'against' prefix but conveys similar adversarial struggle
- ἀνθίστημι anthístēmi · G436 · to oppose, to be hostile toward, to show hostility
- Greek verb with adversarial prefix ἀντι- denoting standing against or resisting an opponent; represents a more static posture of opposition or resistance, whereas the target emphasizes active, dynamic struggle or contest.
In the other Testament 1 word
- לָחַם lâcham · H3898 · to eat, to have a meal
- Hebrew verb for engaging in combat or struggle, commonly used for military conflict but also figurative struggle; natural translation equivalent for the Greek notion of struggling against an opponent
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To struggle against39.31
- In Hebrews 12:4, the writer tells his readers, “You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against (antagōnizómenoi) sin,” describing an active, effortful struggle against a hostile force.
Word family 51 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon to struggle, fight; πρός τί, against a thing, Heb 12:4 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 52, 4, 3).…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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