1864. epagónizomai
Strong's Concordance
epagónizomai: to contend with or for
Original Word: ἐπαγωνίζομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epagónizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee)
Short Definition: I contend earnestly for
Definition: I contend earnestly for.
HELPS Word-studies

1864 epagōnízomai (from 1909 /epí, "focused on" and 73 /agṓn, "a contest, competition") – properly, to contend (literally, "struggle upon, appropriately"), i.e. with skill and commitment in opposing whatever is not of faith (God's persuasion).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1864: ἐπαγωνίζομαι

ἐπαγωνίζομαι; to contend: τίνι, for a thing, Jude 1:3. (τῷ Ἀννιβα, against Hannibal, Plutarch, Fab. 23, 2; ταῖς νικαις, added a new contest to his victories, id. Cim. 13, 4; by others in different senses.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
earnestly contend

From epi and agonizomai; to struggle for -- earnestly contend foreign

see GREEK epi

see GREEK agonizomai

Forms and Transliterations
επαγωνιζεσθαι επαγωνίζεσθαι ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι επάδοντι επαδόντων επάδων επάσαι epagonizesthai epagonízesthai epagōnizesthai epagōnízesthai
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ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι — 1 Occ.

Jude 1:3 V-PNM/P
GRK: ὑμῖν παρακαλῶν ἐπαγωνίζεσθαι τῇ ἅπαξ
NAS: to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith
KJV: and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith
INT: to you exhorting [you] to contend earnestly for the once for all

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