Lexical Summary
antagónizomai: To struggle against, to oppose, to contend
Original Word: ἀνταγωνίζομαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: antagónizomai
Pronunciation: an-tag-ON-id-zom-ahee
Phonetic Spelling: (an-tag-o-nid'-zom-ahee)
KJV: strive against
NASB: striving
Word Origin: [from G473 (ἀντί - instead) and G75 (ἀγωνίζομαι - strive)]
1. to struggle against
2. (figuratively) "antagonize"
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
strive against.
From anti and agonizomai; to struggle against (figuratively) ("antagonize") -- strive against.
see GREEK anti
see GREEK agonizomai
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
anti and
agónizomaiDefinitionto struggle against
NASB Translationstriving (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 464: ἀνταγωνίζομαιἀνταγωνίζομαι;
to struggle, fight;
πρός τί, against a thing,
Hebrews 12:4 (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 52, 4, 3). (
Xenophon,
Plato,
Demosthenes, etc.)
