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1.
(
0
, 73), from
, “to lead,” signifies (a) “a place of assembly,”
especially the place where the Greeks assembled for the Olympic and Pythian games; (b)
“a contest of athletes,” metaphorically, 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7, “fight”; Heb. 12:1,
“race”; hence, (c) “the inward conflict of the soul”; inward “conflict” is often the result,
or the accompaniment, of outward “conflict,” Phil. 1:30; 1 Thess. 2:2, implying a contest
against spiritual foes, as well as human adversaries; so Col. 2:1, “conflict,”
KJV
;
RV
,
“(how greatly) I strive,” lit., “how great a conflict I have.” See
CONTENTION
,
FIGHT
,
RACE
.¶. Cf.
(Eng., “agonize”), 1 Cor. 9:25 etc.
2.
(
/
, 119) denotes “a combat, contest of athletes”; hence, “a struggle,
6ght,” Heb. 10:32, with reference to affliction. See
FIGHT
.¶ Cf.
, “to strive,” 2 Tim.
2:5 (twice).¶
CONFORMED, CONFORMABLE
A. Verb.
$
(
$
, 4833v), “to make of like form with another person or
thing, to render like” (
$
, “with,”
, “a form”), is found in Phil. 3:10 (in the
passive participle of the verb), “becoming conformed” (or “growing into conformity”) to
the death of Christ, indicating the practical apprehension of the death of the carnal self,
and fulfilling his share of the sufferings following upon the sufferings of Christ. Some
texts have the alternative verb
$
, which has practically the same meaning.
B. Adjectives.
1.
$
(
$
, 4832), akin to A, signifies “having the same form as
another, conformed to”; (a) of the “conformity” of children of God “to the image of His
Son,” Rom. 8:29; (b), of their future physical “conformity” to His body of glory, Phil.
3:21. See
FASHION
.¶
2.
$
(
&
, 4964), “to fashion or shape one thing like another,” is
translated “conformed” in Rom. 12:2,
KJV
;
RV
, “fashioned”; “fashioning” in 1 Pet. 1:14.
This verb has more especial reference to that which is transitory, changeable, unstable;
$
, to that which is essential in character and thus complete or durable, not
merely a form or outline.
-$
could not be used of inward transformation. See
FASHION
(
) and
FORM
(
).¶
CONFOUND, CONFUSE, CONFUSION
A. Nouns.
1.
(
&
, 181), “instability,” ( , negative,
, “down,”
,
“a standing”), denotes “a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion, tumult,” 1 Cor. 14:33;
Jas. 3:16, “revolution or anarchy”; translated “tumults” in Luke 21:9 (
KJV
,
“commotions”); 2 Cor. 6:5; 12:20. See
TUMULT
.¶
2.
$
$
(
"
, 4799), “a pouring or mixing together” (
$
, “with,”
, “to
pour”); hence “a disturbance, confusion, a tumultuous disorder, as of riotous persons,” is
found in Acts 19:29.¶
B. Verbs.