noun · feminine
agōnias
Strong’sG74
contest, agony
stem agōni-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἀγωνία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀγών), [in LXX: II Mac 3:14, 16 15:19*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G74 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidag-o-nee'-ah
a struggle (properly, the state), i.e. (figuratively) anguish
Fromfrom G73;
King Jamesagony.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
contest, struggle for victory, ἀγὼν διὰ πάσης ἀγωνίης ἔχωνRefs 5th c.BC+; ἅπασαν ἀ. ἐκτεἶναι [Refs 4th c.BC+
2 gymnastic exercise, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, exercise, Refs
3 of the mind, agony, anguish, ἐν φόβῳ καὶ πολλῇ ἀ.Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | agōnias | agōniais |
| object accusative | agōnian | agōniain |
| direct address vocative | agōniar | agōniair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agōniau | agōniaiu |
| to, for dative | agōnia1×ἀγωνίᾳ | agōniai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
agōnia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
agōnia“anguish”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 22:44kai generantos en agōnia ektenesterem proseuchote; kai geneta tos hidrōtos …And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His …