Bible word study

Agonizomai (Strong’s G75): Meaning in the Bible

Agonizomai (ἀγωνίζομαι) is the Greek word numbered G75 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to accomplish something). In the King James Bible it is translated fight, labor fervently, strive..

• Original wordἀγωνίζομαι
• Transliterationagōnízomai
• Pronunciationag-o-nid'-zom-ahee
• Strong’s numberG75
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G73;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Agonizomai appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Agonizomai (G75) stands behind 7 English renderings in 7 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Colossians (2), Luke (1), John (1).

How the King James Bible renders Agonizomai, by count

• fight2 of 7 (29 percent)
• fervently1 of 7 (14 percent)
• fought1 of 7 (14 percent)
• mastery1 of 7 (14 percent)
• strive1 of 7 (14 percent)
• striving1 of 7 (14 percent)

Three places to read Agonizomai

• Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
• 1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
• Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Agonizomai in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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