1) to enter a contest: contend in the gymnastic games
2) to contend with adversaries, fight
3) metaphorically to contend, struggle, with difficulties and dangers
4) to endeavour with strenuous zeal, strive: to obtain something
Part of Speech: verb
Citing in TDNT: 1:135, 20
G75
From G73; to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or generally (to endeavor to accomplish something): - fight, labor fervently, strive.
| Gloss | Section |
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| a fight | 39.29 |
| b compete | 50.1 |
| c make effort | 68.74 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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