Quick Definition
a contest
Strong's Definition
a struggle (figuratively)
Derivation: from G118 (ἀθλέω);
KJV Usage: fight
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄθλησις, (εως, ἡ, contest, combat, (frequently from Polybius down); figuratively, ἄθλησις παθημάτων a struggle with sufferings, trials, Heb_10:32; (of martyrdom, Ignatius mart. 4; Clement, mart. 25).
STRONGS NT 119a: ἀθροίζωἀθροίζω: perfect passive participle ἠθροισμένος; (from ἀθρόος, equivalent to θρόος (a noisy crowd, noise), with a copulative (see A, a, 2)); to collect together, assemble; passive to be assembled, to convene: Luk_24:33 L T Tr WH. ((Sophocles) Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Photius, others; O. T. Apocrypha; sometimes in the Sept. for χΘαΗυ.) (Compare: ἐπαθροίζω, συναθροίζω).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄθλησις athlēsis 1x
contest, combat, struggle, conflict, Heb_10:32
ἀθροίζω athroizō 1x
to collect, gather, Luk_24:33
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἄθλησις , -εως , ἡ
( <ἀθλέω ),
a contest, combat , esp . of athletes; fig ., a struggle: Heb_10:32 (for exx ., v. MM , VGT , s.v. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄθλησις [page 12]
IG XIV. 1102 (Rome, ii/A.D.). CP Herm 119 verso iii. 13 (a rescript of Gallienus), εὐδοκίμων κατὰ τὴν ἄθλησ [ιν ] γενομένων . Syll 686 .24 (ii/A.D.) ἀξίως καὶ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου καὶ τῆς ἀθλήσεως . Other words of this family are well evidenced. Thus OGIS 339 .79 (Sestos, ii/B.C.) τιθεὶς ἆθλα πάντων τῶν ἀθλημάτων , with ἀθλητής , ἀθλόφορος , etc.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἄθλησις [Etym: ἀθλέω] "a contest, struggle", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἄθλησις, -εως, ἡ
(ἀθλέω),
a contest, combat, esp. of athletes; figuratively, a struggle: Heb.10:32 (for exx., see MM, VGT, see word).†
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