noun · feminine

palas

Greekπάλη (palē)

Strong’sG3823

a wrestling, struggle

stem pal-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

struggle1×

What it means

* 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.

Every form

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

palas“struggle”subjectnominative singular1×

Ephesians 6:12“struggle”hoti ouk atō ni tas palas pros haimem kai sarxan, alla pros tain archain, pros tain exousiain, pros toin kosmokratōroin teu skoteu houteu, pros teim pneumatikeim tau ponēriau en tei epouranei.For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.