athlēsias

Strong’sG119

a contest

stem athlēsi-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.

*† ἄθλησις, -εως, ἡ

(< ἀθλέω),

a contest, combat, esp. of athletes; fig., a struggle: He 10:32 (for exx., v. MM, VGT, s.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G119 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidath'-lay-sis

a struggle (figuratively)

Fromfrom G118;

King Jamesfight.

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

ἄθλ-ησις, ἡ,
contest, combat, especially of athletes, Refs 2nd c.BC+; κατὰ τὴν ἄ. 'in the athletic world', Refs 3rd c.AD+; training, practice, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 generally, struggle, trial, ἄ. ὑπομένεινNT

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.

struggle1×

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	athlēsias	athlēsiais
object accusative	athlēsian1×ἄθλησιν	athlēsiain
direct address vocative	athlēsiar	athlēsiair
of, belonging to genitive	athlēsiau	athlēsiaiu
to, for dative	athlēsia	athlēsiai

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

athlēsistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

athlēsia 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

athlēsian“struggle”objectaccusative singular1×

Hebrews 10:32“struggle”… proterem hēmerain, en hai fōtizirantois pollan athlēsian hupomenava pathēmeiu,… the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in …