UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Sense 1: to struggle against

Semantic entry: 39.31

Semantic domains: Hostility, Strife

Subdomains: Strife, Struggle

Definition: to engage in an intense struggle against something or someone

Notes: In a number of languages one cannot use a term in RV HEB 12:4 · LV HEB 12:4 · Read together HEB 12:4 which would suggest physical struggle, for essentially this is psychological opposition. In some cases the appropriate equivalent would be ‘to do all you can to oppose sin’ or ‘to do everything possible against evil.’

HEB 12:4: RV HEB 12:4 · LV HEB 12:4 · Read together HEB 12:4

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OET-RV HEB 12:4

4 So far, you all haven’t had to resist to the point of sweating or shedding blood in the struggle against sin.

OET-LV HEB 12:4

4 Not _yet unto blood you _all _stood _against, against the sin struggling,

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀνταγωνίζομαι

Form 1

Sense 1: to struggle against