Word Summary
synagōnizomai: to strive with
Original Word: συναγωνίζομαιTransliteration: synagōnizomai
Phonetic Spelling: (soon-ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to strive with
Meaning: to strive with
Strong's Concordance
strive together with.
From sun and agonizomai; to struggle in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to be a partner (assistant) -- strive together with.
see GREEK sun
see GREEK agonizomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4865: συναγωνίζομαισυναγωνίζομαι: 1 aorist middle infinitive
συναγωνίσασθαί; from
Thucydides and
Xenophon down;
to strive together with one, to help one in striving:
τίνι ἐν τάς προσευχαῖς, in prayers, i. e. to offer intense prayers with one,
Romans 15:30; in what sense intense prayer may be likened to a struggle, see Philippi at the passage ((cf.
ἀγωνιζόμενος in
Colossians 4:12 and
Lightfoot's note)).