= Synagoge, Photius; cf. Lexicon to the Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus 185, as well as Hesychius sigma2831 (sfada/zousa: r(hgnume/nh "being torn apart").
For this verb cf. already sigma 1706 and sigma 1707. The present entry's headword is its present active participle, feminine nominative singular. Since sfada/zousa can mean "conflictedly desiring" as well as "struggling" to do something, the (feminine) subject is doing evil, evidently, not just desiring it; but one might think also of a subject like h( logikh\ fu/sis (Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 28.13) which is described with this word as it frustratedly tries to find God in the visible world.
On the present indicative, third person singular, Hesychius sigma2829 gives a long list of synonyms.