STRONGS G72:
ἀγωγή,
-ῆς,
ἡ (from
ἄγω, like
ἐδωδή from
ἔδω);
1. properly,
a leading.
2. figuratively,
a. transitive,
a conducting, training, education, discipline.
b. intransitive,
the life led, way or
course of life (a use which arose from the fuller expression
ἀγωγὴ τοῦ βίου, in Polybius 4, 74, 1.4; cf. German
Lebensführung):
2 Timothy 3:10 [
R. V. conduct] (
Esther 2:20; 2 Macc. 4:16;
ἡ ἐν Χριστῷ ἀγωγή,
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 47, 6;
ἁγνὴ ἀγωγή, ibid. 48, 1). Often in secular authors in all these senses.
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