BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6439
pe.nu.el — Peniel
§ Penuel or Peniel = "facing God" the place named by Jacob when he wrestled with God and located on the north bank of the Jabbok close to the Jordan
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6617
pa.tal — to twist
1) to twist 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be twisted 1a2) to wrestle 1b) (Hithpael) to be twisted
5 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H79
a.vaq — to wrestle
(Niphal) to wrestle, grapple (get dusty), bedust
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G118
athleō — to compete
ἀθλέω, -ῶ (in cl. also ἀθλεύω, ἆθλος, a contest, in war or in sport), to contend in games, wrestle, combat: 2Ti.2:5.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G5136
trachēlizō — to lay bare
τραχηλίζω (τράχηλος), prop., of wrestlers, to take by the throat, hence (Philo), to prostrate, overthrow. Metaphorical, but in what sense and from what age it is doubtful (see Westc., Rendall, on He, l.with; DB, iii, 625n), τραχηλισμένα, laid open (RV, Westc.; downcast, Rendall): Heb.4:13.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G21182
sunanastrephō — to wrestle with
1. to turn back together , intransitive, (Plutarch) 2. Pass. and Mid. to live along with or among others, with dative, (Plutarch) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8025
klimax — a stairway
1. a ladder or staircase (because of its leaning aslant) , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—; a scaling-ladder , (Thucydides); κλίμακος προσαμβάσεις (Aeschulus Tragicus):—; a ship's ladder , (Euripides) 2. a frame with cross-bars , on which persons to be tortured were tied, (Aristophanes Comicus) 3. in (Sophocles Tragicus), κλίμακες ἀμφίπλεκτοι intertwining ladders , to express the entanglement of the limbs of wrestlers. 4. a climax , i. e. a gradual ascent from weaker expressions to stronger, Lat. gradatio, as Cicero's abiit, evasit, erupit. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8062
konia — lime
1. dust, a cloud of dust , stirred up by men's feet, (Iliad by Homer); also in plural, like Lat. arenae, (Homer), etc. 2. sand or soil (see. ὑπερέπτω); (Iliad by Homer) 3. ashes , in plural like Lat. cineres, (Odyssey by Homer) 4. a fine powder , sprinkled over wrestlers' bodies after being oiled, to make them more easily grasped by the opponent:—;this powder was also used in the bath, (Aristophanes Comicus) ι- in κονίῃσιν, in other cases ι- usually. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8333
mitra — a mitre
1. a belt or girdle , worn round the waist beneath the cuirass (whereas the ζωστήρ went over it), (Iliad by Homer) 2. = ζώνη, the maiden-zone , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus), etc. 3. a girdle worn by wrestlers , [variant datesAnthology Palantina 4. a head-band worn by Greek women to tie up their hair, a snood , (Euripides) 5. the victor's chaplet at the games, (Pindar); Λυδία μίτρα a Lydian garland (i. e. an ode in Lydian measure), (Pindar) 6. a Persian head-dress, turban , (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G8586
palaiō — to wrestle
to wrestle , (Iliad by Homer): π. τινί to wrestle with one, (Odyssey by Homer):—;Pass., παλαισθείς beaten , (Euripides) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9209
strophē — a shift and turn
1. a turning , e.g. of a horse, (Xenophon Historicus); ἐν στροφαῖσιν ὀμμάτων with rolling of the eyes, (Euripides) 2. a twist , such as wrestlers make to elude their adversary, (Plato Philosophus):—;metaphorically a trick, dodge , (Aristophanes Comicus) 3. the turning of the Chorus as they danced from right to left of the ὀρχήστρα: the strain sung during this evolution, the strophe , to which the ἀντιστροφή answers. (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →(Eph. 6:12). See GAMES.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
