(n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.

2 Timothy ii. 7-Jan
... to diet, to temperance and sobriety, and all the rules of the wrestling school,
unless, in short, he go through all that is befitting for a wrestler, [1356] he ...
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On the Departure of Flavian, Bishop of Antioch, who was Gone on an ...
... makes ready his steed for the battle; and the husbandman sharpens his sickle; and
the traveller boldly undertakes a long journey, and the wrestler strips and ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily iii on the departure.htm

Jacob-Wrestling
... It was God and Esau"both together. Till Jacob to the day of his death
never could tell who that terrible wrestler really was. ...
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Further Objections Anticipated. He did not Choose his Manner of ...
... He did not choose His manner of death; for He was to prove Conqueror of death
in all or any of its forms: (simile of a good wrestler). ...
/.../section 24 further objections anticipated.htm

Consolation in Christ
... too. Did he not appear also to Jacob at the brook Jabbok? Jacob was a wrestler,
and Jesus appears there as a wrestler too. Did he ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/consolation in christ.htm

Hebrews ii. 16-17
... to His disciples and Paul says, "All Who will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall
suffer persecution." ( 2 Timothy 3:12.) No noble-spirited wrestler, when in the ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily v hebrews ii 16-17.htm

Rom. xii. 4, 5
... expenditure of money and the labor of the person, and ruling, and zeal, and teaching,
and other laborious occupations, he again supplies the wrestler with love ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxi rom xii 4.htm

Witnessing Better than Knowing the Future
... He is first a wrestler alone by Jabbok; then he becomes a wrestler in the midst
of the host of sinners, conquering them for Christ, taking them captive in the ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 39 1893/witnessing better than knowing the.htm

Again, on Matt. vi. On the Lord's Prayer. To the Competentes.
... Suppose avarice tempts a man, and he is conquered in any single temptation (for
sometimes even a good wrestler and fighter may get roughly handled [2025 ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon vii again on matt.htm

The Introduction, and Exhortation to Demetrianus.
... are pleasant. For you know how crafty that wrestler and adversary of ours
is, and also often violent, as we now see that he is. He ...
/.../on the workmanship of god/chap i the introduction and exhortation.htm

Wrestler (3 Occurrences)
...Wrestler (3 Occurrences). ... (WEY). 2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure Thou shewest Thyself
pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler. (YLT). ...
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Jacob (361 Occurrences)
... In this mysterious contest Jacob prevailed, and as a memorial of it his name was
changed to Israel (wrestler with God); and the place where this occured he ...
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Greyhound (1 Occurrence)
... render it "cock." It has been by some interpreters rendered also "stag" and "warrior,"
as being girded about or panoplied, and "wrestler." The greyhound ...
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Wrestleth (1 Occurrence)

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Wrestled (6 Occurrences)

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Tackle (1 Occurrence)
... or wagon. 6. (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler
tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game. 7. (n.) To ...
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Trip (4 Occurrences)
... 14. (n.) A small piece; a morsel; a bit. 15. (n.) A stroke, or catch, by
which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing. 16. ...
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Reliance (6 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Colossians 1:29 To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength
in reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me. (WEY) ...
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Exert (4 Occurrences)
... Colossians 1:29 To this end, like an earnest wrestler, I exert all my strength in
reliance upon the power of Him who is mightily at work within me. (WEY). ...
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Perverted (26 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). 2 Samuel 22:27 With the pure Thou shewest
Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler. (See NAS). ...
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