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Definition: a contest, great fear Usage: (properly the feeling of the athlete before a contest), great fear, terror, of death; anxiety, agony.
Strong's #74 ἀγωνία agonia {ag-o-nee'-ah} From G0073; a struggle (properly the state), that is, (figuratively) anguish. Online Strong's Exhaustive Concordance numbers, Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament & Thayer's Greek Dictionary of the New Testament.
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Traditionally, English follows Latin usage by placing the "AD" abbreviation before the year number, though it is also found after the year. In contrast, "BC" is always placed after the year number (for example: AD 70, but 70 BC), which preserves syntactic order.
As the name suggests, BC or Before Christ refers to the number of years before Christ was born. AD or Anno Domini is the period after Christ was born. BCE and CE stand for 'Before Common Era' and 'Common Era' and are alternatives to BC and AD respectively.
The word "baptize" or "baptized" is an Anglicized version of the Greek "baptizo", and is transliterated instead of being translated. The practice of immersion in water existed for centuries before it began to be altered as early as the 4th century AD, and being more commonly replaced by sprinkling in the 7th century AD.
• Eulexis-Biblissima: online search in the Greek dictionaries: Liddell-Scott-Jones (Greek-English), Bailly (Greek-French), Pape (Greek-German) • Philologic or Perseus: Greek-English lexicon by Henry Liddell & Robert Scott, completed by Henry Jones (LSJ) (1940)
