Wrestle

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.

(2): ( v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.

(3): ( v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.

(4): ( n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.

King James Dictionary [2]

WRESTLE, resl.

1. To strive with arms extended, as two men, who seize each other by the collar and arms, each endeavoring to throw the other by tripping up his heels and twitching him off his center.

Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

2. To struggle to strive to contend.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood.  Ephesians 6 .

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]

 Ephesians 6:12 (a) Here we see the exercise of soul in a child of GOD as he opposes the powers of darkness. Frequently it is difficult for the Christian when in prayer to get through the multitude of hindrances until he feels he is in the presence of GOD.

Easton's Bible Dictionary [4]

 Ephesians 6:12Games

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