ἈΓΩΝ, ἀγων
AGŌN, agōn
Sounds Like: ah-GOHN
Translations: contest, struggle, fight, race, a contest, a struggle, a fight, a race
From the root: ἈΓΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a gathering, especially for a contest or struggle. It can denote a physical struggle, a race, a battle, or a more general conflict or struggle in life. It is often used in the context of athletic games or a spiritual struggle.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0737 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:2
Clement of Rome
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 19:315
- Book 3 — 8:212
- Book 4 — 5:96, 7:163
- Book 5 — 2:142, 8:241
- Book 9 — 9:201
- Book 10 — 9:179
- Book 11 — 6:256
- Book 12 — 8:341
- Book 13 — 1:27, 6:203, 7:82, 7:103
- Book 14 — 1:16, 8:128, 9:180, 16:468, 16:488
- Book 15 — 5:112
- Book 16 — 11:370
- Book 17 — 10:272, 10:274
- Book 18 — 6:182, 6:236, 8:262
- Book 19 — 1:92, 5:274, 7:318, 8:350, 9:354
- Book 20 — 2:23, 8:182
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 8:17, 10:5, 12:10, 12:12, 17:12, 19:11, 19:17, 20:3, 20:6, 30:8
- Book Two — 5:3, 16:23, 17:20, 20:6
- Book Three — 7:193
- Book Four — 9:20
- Book Seven — 6:48, 11:13
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 54:1
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 7:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΓΩΝ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΓΩΝΑ — contest, struggle, fight, race, conflict, a contest, a struggle, a fight, a race, a conflict
- ἈΓΩΝΑΣ — contests, struggles, fights, races, conflicts
- ἈΓΩΝΕΣ — contests, struggles, races, conflicts, gatherings, assemblies
- ἈΓΩΝΙ — struggle, contest, fight, conflict, agony, anguish, a struggle, a contest
- ἈΓΩΝΙΣΜΑ — contest, a contest, struggle, a struggle, fight, a fight, conflict, a conflict, race, a race, prize, a prize
- ἈΓΩΝΙΣΤΗΣ — athlete, a competitor, competitor, a fighter, fighter
- ἈΓΩΝΟΣ — of a contest, of contest, of a struggle, of struggle, of a fight, of fight, of a race, of race, of a conflict, of conflict
- ἈΓΩΝΩΝ — of contests, of struggles, of races, of assemblies, of games, of conflicts
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