3823. palé
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palé: wrestling, generally fight
Original Word: πάλη, ης, ἡ
Part 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).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from palló (to sway)
Definition
wrestling, generally fight
NASB Translation
struggle (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 3823: πάλη

πάλη, παλης, (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
struggle

From pallo (to vibrate; another form for ballo); wrestling -- + wrestle.

see GREEK ballo

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