Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, so that the LORD gave them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.
Original word: ἄθλησις
Transliteration: athlésis
Definition (short): conflict
Definition (full): a contest
Definition: a contest
NASB Translation: conflict (1).
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From
athleo; a struggle (figuratively) -- fight.
see GREEK athleo
KJV:
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
NASB:
But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,