Agon means “conflict” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H73 — abnet (“girdle”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G73 ἀγών (agon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. agon (ag-one') n. 1. (properly) a place of assembly (as if led) 2. (by implication) a contest (held there) It has 20 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include conflict. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
agon (ag-one') n. 1. (properly) a place of assembly (as if led) 2. (by implication) a contest (held there) 3. (figuratively) an effort or anxiety [from G71] KJV: conflict, contention, fight, race Root(s): G71
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fight
Usage: ἀγών, -ῶνος, ὁ (ἄγω), [in LXX: Isa.7:13 (לאה), Est.4:17, Wis.4:2 10:12, II Mac.6, 4Mac .5 * ;] __1. a gathering, esp. for games. __2. a place of assembly. __3. a contest, struggle, trial; metaphorically (MM, VGT, see word), __(a) of the Christian life as a contest and struggle: Php.1:30, 1Th.2:2, 1Ti.6:12, 2Ti.4:7 Heb.12:1; __(b) solicitude, anxiety: Col.2:1. † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render agon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G73 (ἀγών) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do ye contend against the Lord?
13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present,
Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side making their rage leader of their battle.
Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of them that were with Judas, and the courageousness that they had to fight for their country, durst not try the matter by the sword.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G73.
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? and how do ye contend against the Lord?
Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Now when the game that was used every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present,
Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side making their rage leader of their battle.
Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the manliness of them that were with Judas, and the courageousness that they had to fight for their country, durst not try the matter by the sword.
but missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also rushing within the doors, he ran boldly up to the wall, and cast himself down manfully among the thickest of them.
And so comforting them out of the law and the prophets, and withal putting them in mind of the battles that they won afore, he made them more cheerful.
Imitate me, O brethren, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion;
And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brothers have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God.
O mother of a nation, avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!
O sons, noble is the contest; to which you being called as a witness for the nation, strive zealously for the laws of your country.
For it was a truly divine contest which was carried through by them.
When it is present, men take example at it; And when it is gone, they desire it: It weareth a crown, and triumpheth forever, Having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled rewards.
She defended him from his enemies, And kept him safe from those that lay in wait, And in a sore conflict she gave him the victory; That he might know that godliness is stronger than all.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G73, grouped by book.
Agon (Strong's G73) is a Greek word most simply glossed "conflict". agon (ag-one') n. 1. (properly) a place of assembly (as if led) 2. (by implication) a contest (held there)
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G73 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G73 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as conflict. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G73, with linked reader references where each row is available.