Definition

a struggle (properly, the state), i.e. (figuratively) anguish

Etymology

from G73 (ἀγών);

Word family

• ἀγών agṓn

How the KJV renders it

• agony

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.