palas

Strong’sG3823

a wrestling, struggle

stem pal-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.

* πάλη, -ης, ἡ

(< πάλλω, to sway)

wrestling, hence, generally, fight, contest: fig., of the spiritual combat of Christians, Eph 6:12.†

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

Strong’s G3823 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpal'-ay

another form for G906); wrestling

Fromfrom πάλλω (to vibrate;

King James+ wrestle.

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

πάλη [ᾰ], ἡ,

A wrestling, Refs 8th c.BC+; παίδων, ἐφήβων νεωτέρων, μέσων, πρεσβυτέρων, ἀνδρῶν π., Refs 4th c.BC+
A.2 generally, fight, battle, ἅπτειν πάλην τινί Refs 5th 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.

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	palas1×πάλη	palais
object accusative	palan	palain
direct address vocative	palar	palair
of, belonging to genitive	palau	palaiu
to, for dative	pala	palai

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

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

pala 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

palas“struggle”subjectnominative singular1×

Ephesians 6:12hoti ouk atō ni tas palas pros haimem kai sarkan, alla pros …For our struggle is not against flesh and blood …