Strong's numbers

ἀγών G73 Hear this

agṓn

ag-one'

from ἄγω; properly, a place of assembly (as if led), i.e. (by implication) a contest (held there); figuratively, an effort or anxiety:--conflict, contention, fight, race.

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6 occurrences

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• Philippians 1:30
  Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
• Colossians 2:1
  For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
• 1 Thessalonians 2:2
  But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
• 1 Timothy 6:12
  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
• 2 Timothy 4:7
  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
• Hebrews 12:1
  Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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14 in the Septuagint, in 13 verses

• Esther 4:12a
  Καὶ Ἐσθὴρ ἡ βασίλισσα κατέφυγεν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἐν ἀγῶνι θανάτου κατειλημμένη,
• 2 Maccabees 4:18
  Ἀγομένου δὲ πενταετηρικοῦ ἀγῶνος ἐν Τύρῳ, καὶ τοῦ βασιλέως παρόντος,
• 2 Maccabees 10:28
  ἄρτι δὲ τῆς ἀνατολῆς διαχεομένης, προσέβαλλον ἑκάτεροι· οἱ μὲν οὖν ἔγγυον ἔχοντες εὐημερίας καὶ νίκης μετὰ ἀρετῆς τὴν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον καταφυγήν, οἱ δὲ καθηγεμόνα τῶν ἀγώνων ταττόμενοι τὸν θυμόν.
• 2 Maccabees 14:18
  ὅμως δὲ ἀκούων ὁ Νικάνωρ ἣν εἶχον οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἰούδαν ἀνδραγαθίαν καὶ ἐν τοῖς περὶ τῆς πατρίδος ἀγῶσιν εὐψυχίαν, ὑπευλαβεῖτο τὴν κρίσιν δι’ αἱμάτων ποιήσασθαι.
• 2 Maccabees 14:43
  τῇ δὲ πληγῇ μὴ κατευθικτήσας διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀγῶνος σπουδήν, καὶ τῶν ὄχλων ἔσω τῶν θυρωμάτων εἰσβαλλόντων, ἀναδραμὼν γενναίως ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος, κατεκρήμνισεν ἑαυτὸν ἀνδρωδῶς εἰς τοὺς ὄχλους.
• 2 Maccabees 15:9
  καὶ παραμυθούμενος αὐτοὺς ἐκ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τῶν προφητῶν, προσυμνήσας δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας οὓς ἦσαν ἐκτετελεκότες, προθυμοτέρους αὐτοὺς κατέστησεν.
• 4 Maccabees 13:15
  μέγας γὰρ ψυχῆς ἀγὼν καὶ κίνδυνος ἐν αἰωνίῳ βασάνῳ κείμενος τοῖς παραβᾶσιν τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ θεοῦ.
• 4 Maccabees 15:29
  Ὦ μήτηρ ἔθνους, ἔκδικε τοῦ νόμου, καὶ ὑπερασπίστεια τῆς εὐσεβείας, καὶ τοῦ διὰ σπλάγχνων ἀγῶνος ἀθλοφόρε.
• 4 Maccabees 16:16
  Ὦ παῖδες, γενναῖος ὁ ἀγών· ἐφ’ ὃν κληθέντες ὑπὲρ τῆς διαμαρτυρίας τοῦ ἔθνους, ἐναγωνίσασθε προθύμως ὑπὲρ τοῦ πατρίου νόμου.
• 4 Maccabees 17:11
  ἀληθῶς γὰρ ἦν ἀγὼν θεῖος ὁ δι’ αὐτῶν γεγενημένος.
• Wisdom 4:2
  παροῦσάν τε μιμοῦνται αὐτήν, καὶ ποθοῦσιν ἀπελθοῦσαν· καὶ ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι στεφανηφοροῦσα πομπεύει, τὸν τῶν ἀμιάντων ἄθλων ἀγῶνα νικήσασα.
• Wisdom 10:12
  διεφύλαξεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ ἐνεδρευόντων ἠσφαλίσατο, καὶ ἀγῶνα ἰσχυρὸν ἐβράβευσεν αὐτῷ, ἵνα γνῷ ὅτι παντὸς δυνατωτέρα ἐστὶν εὐσέβεια.
• Isaiah 7:13
  καὶ εἶπεν Ἀκούσατε δή, οἶκος Δαυείδ· μὴ μικρὸν ὑμῖν ἀγῶνα παρέχειν ἀνθρώποις, καὶ πῶς Κυρίῳ παρέχετε ἀγῶνα;

Biblion's Septuagint: the Greek Old Testament in H. B. Swete's edition (Cambridge, 1896–1905), as digitized by the Open Greek and Latin project at the University of Leipzig (First1KGreek), corrected against the printed pages, with lemmas, morphology, Strong's numbers and links to the Hebrew prepared for Biblion. CC BY-SA 4.0.