1. (n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

2. (n.) Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

3. (n.) One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate.

5143. trecho -- to run
... 5143 -- properly, to (like an athlete competing in the ancient Greek games);
(figuratively) advance , like an athlete with (see 1 Cor 9:24). ...
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1128. gumnazo -- to exercise naked, to train
... 1128 (from 1131 , "to train, naked or wearing a loin cloth") -- properly, naked
or lightly clad, as with an ancient Greek athlete in a sporting event ...
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74. agonia -- a contest, great fear
... Feminine Transliteration: agonia Phonetic Spelling: (ag-o-nee'-ah) Short Definition:
contest, agony Definition: (properly the feeling of the athlete before a ...
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118. athleo -- to contend, wrestle
... Word Origin from athlos (a contest, struggle) Definition to contend, wrestle NASB
Word Usage competes (1), competes as an athlete (1). strive. ...
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1 Corinthians 9:24-96
Know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
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2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
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That the Athlete of Christ, So Long as He is in the Body, is Never ...
... Prolegomena. Chapter XIX. That the athlete of Christ, so long as he is in
the body, is never without a battle. The athlete of Christ ...
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The Story of a Divine Tragedy
... limbs and arms as strong as were ever displayed in the games, yet powerful without
brutality, graceful without weakness"marks of the ideal athlete that had ...
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To Polycarp
... "Bear the diseases" [287] of everyone, like an athlete in perfect form. The greater
the toil, the greater the gain. ... As God's athlete, be sober. ...
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Commendation and Exhortation.
... [1066] Bear the infirmities of all, as being a perfect athlete [in the Christian
life]: where the labour is great, the gain is all the more. ...
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Exhortations.
... God. Be sober as an athlete of God: the prize set before thee is immortality
and eternal life, of which thou art also persuaded. ...
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Exhortations.
... It is the part of a noble [1081] athlete to be wounded, and yet to conquer. ... It is
the part of a noble [1083] athlete to be wounded, and yet to conquer. ...
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Exhortations.
... Let not those who seem to be somewhat, and teach strange doctrines, strike thee
with apprehension; but stand thou in the truth, as an athlete [1137] who is ...
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How Flavianus and Diodorus Gathered the Church of the Orthodox in ...
... rank, thought piety the only nobility, [766] and, like some trainer for the games,
anointed the great Diodorus [767] as though he had been an athlete for five ...
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Letter cccxxxix. Basil to Libanius.
... Footnotes: [3270] A famous athlete of Scotussa. Paus. vi. 5. [3271] The athlete
of Crotona, who was crowned again and again at the Pythian and Olympian games. ...
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Funeral Oration on Meletius .
... These Holy ones have drawn to themselves one of like conversation; those athletes
a fellow athlete; those crowned ones another crowned like them; the pure in ...
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Athlete (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Athlete (2 Occurrences). 1 Corinthians 9:25 But every
competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. ...
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Athletic (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic
Celts. Multi-Version Concordance Athletic (2 Occurrences). ...
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Temperate (6 Occurrences)
... effect that the word refers to "control over the stronger passions." In 1 Corinthians
9:25, Paul illustrates it by the training of an athlete, whose regimen is ...
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Temperance (3 Occurrences)
... effect that the word refers to "control over the stronger passions." In 1 Corinthians
9:25, Paul illustrates it by the training of an athlete, whose regimen is ...
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Mastery (5 Occurrences)
... is translated "strive for masteries," the Revised Version (British and American)
"contend in the games." From the Greek we have the words "athlete," etc.. ...
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Continency (1 Occurrence)
... same Greek verb is used in 1 Corinthians 9:25, and translated "is temperate" (the
King James Version and the English Revised Version) of the athlete who during ...
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Ath'lai (1 Occurrence)
Ath'lai. Athlai, Ath'lai. Athlete . Multi-Version Concordance Ath'lai (1
Occurrence). ... (See RSV). Athlai, Ath'lai. Athlete . Reference Bible.
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Agony (20 Occurrences)
... conflict. The wrestling of the athlete has its counterpart in the wrestling
of the suffering soul of the Saviour in the garden. ...
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Self-control (14 Occurrences)
... continency"; 9:25, the athlete "exerciseth self-control." Self-control is therefore
repeatedly set forth in the New Testament as among the important Christian ...
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Selfcontrol
... continency"; 9:25, the athlete "exerciseth self-control." Self-control is therefore
repeatedly set forth in the New Testament as among the important Christian ...
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Athlete (2 Occurrences)

1 Corinthians 9:25 But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.
(See RSV)

2 Timothy 2:5 And if any one takes part in an athletic contest, he gets no prize unless he obeys the rules.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Athlete

Athletic (2 Occurrences)

Temperate (6 Occurrences)

Temperance (3 Occurrences)

Mastery (5 Occurrences)

Continency (1 Occurrence)

Ath'lai (1 Occurrence)

Agony (20 Occurrences)

Self-control (14 Occurrences)

Selfcontrol

Burden (111 Occurrences)

Judaeus

Philo

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