Original Word: ἀγωνία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: agónia
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-o-nee'-ah)
Short Definition: contest, agony
Definition: (properly the feeling of the athlete before a contest), great fear, terror, of death; anxiety, agony.

Cognate: 74 agōnía (a feminine noun; see also 73 /agṓn, the masculine noun) – the brand of struggle that emphasizes felt pressure, i.e. experienced in an intensely personal way (used only in Lk 22:44).

STRONGS NT 74: ἀγωνία

ἀγωνία, (ας, ἡ;

1. equivalent to ἀγών, which see.

2. It is often used, from Demosthenes (on the Crown, p. 236, 19 ἦν ὁ Φίλιππος ἐν φόβῳ καί πολλή ἀγωνία) down, of severe mental struggles and emotions, agony, anguish: Luke 22:44 (L brackets WH reject the passage); (2 Macc. 3:14, 16 2Macc. 15:19; Josephus, Antiquities 11, 8, 4 ὁ ἀρχιερεύς ἦν ἐν ἀγωνία καί δηι. (Cf. Field, Otium Norv. iii. on Luke, the passage cited.)

agony.

From agon; a struggle (properly, the state), i.e. (figuratively) anguish -- agony.

see GREEK agon

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