ἈΓΩΝΑΣ, ἀγωνας
AGŌNAS, agōnas
Sounds Like: ah-go-NAS
Translations: contests, struggles, fights, races, conflicts
From the root: ἈΓΩΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a contest, struggle, fight, or race. It can describe a physical competition, a spiritual struggle, or any kind of intense conflict. It is often used in the context of athletic games or a battle.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0737 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:94
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 7:170
- Book 5 — 6:215
- Book 6 — 14:326
- Book 7 — 10:256, 11:282
- Book 12 — 3:128, 7:288, 10:412
- Book 14 — 8:136
- Book 19 — 3:233
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 2:5
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 7:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 15:9
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.
- ἈΓΩΝ — contest, struggle, fight, race, a contest, a struggle, a fight, a race
- ἈΓΩΝΑ — contest, struggle, fight, race, conflict, a contest, a struggle, a fight, a race, a conflict
- 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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