STRONGS G74:
ἀγωνία,
-ας,
ἡ;
1. equivalent to
ἀγών, which see.
2. It is often used, from Demosthenes (on the Crown, p. 236, 19
ἦν ὁ Φίλιππος ἐν φόβῳ καἰ πολλῇ ἀγωνίᾳ) down, of severe mental struggles and emotions,
agony, anguish:
Luke 22:44 [L brackets WH reject the passage]; (2 Macc. 3:14, 16; 2 Macc. 15:19; Josephus, Antiquities 11, 8, 4
ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἦν ἐν ἀγωνίᾳ καἰ δέει).
[Cf.
Field, Otium Norv. iii. on Luke, the passage cited.]
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