Strong's Concordance palé: wrestling, generally fight Original Word: πάλη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: palé Phonetic Spelling: (pal'-ay) Short Definition: a wrestling, struggle Definition: wrestling, a wrestling bout; hence: a struggle, fight, conflict, contest. HELPS Word-studies 3823 pálē – properly, "a wrestling bout; hence, a struggle, a conflict" (Souter). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3823: πάληπάλη, παλης, ἡ (from πάλλω to vibrate, shake), from Homer down, wrestling (a contest between two in which each endeavors to throw the other, and which is decided when the victor is able θλίβειν καί κατέχειν his prostrate antagonist, i. e. hold him down with his hand upon his neck; cf. Plato, legg. 7, p. 796; Aristotle, rhet. 1, 5, 14, p. 1361b, 24; Heliodorus aethiop. 10, 31; (cf. Krause, Gymn. u. Agon. d. Griech. i. 1, p. 400ff; Guhl and Koner, p. 219f; Dict. of Antiq. under the wordlucta)); the term is transferred to the struggle of Christians with the powers of evil: Ephesians 6:12. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance struggleFrom pallo (to vibrate; another form for ballo); wrestling -- + wrestle. see GREEK ballo Forms and Transliterations παλη πάλη pale palē pále pálēLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 38231 Occurrence πάλη — 1 Occ. Ephesians 6:12 N-NFS GRK: ἡμῖν ἡ πάλη πρὸς αἷμα NAS: For our struggle is not against flesh KJV: For we wrestle not against INT: to us the wrestling against blood |
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