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Lexicon :: Strong's G4171 - polemos

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πόλεμος

Transliteration

polemos (Key)

Pronunciation

pol'-em-os

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Part of Speech

masculine noun

Root Word (Etymology)

From pelomai (to bustle)

Greek Inflections of πόλεμος [?]

mGNT
18x in 6 unique form(s) TR
18x in 6 unique form(s) LXX
264x in 7 unique form(s)

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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:502,904

Trench's Synonyms: lxxxvi. πόλεμος, μάχη.

Strong's Info

Strong’s Definitions

πόλεμος pólemos, pol'-em-os; from πέλομαι pélomai (to bustle); warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series):—battle, fight, war.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G4171 in the following manner: war (12x), battle (5x), fight (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G4171 in the following manner: war (12x), battle (5x), fight (1x).

Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

a war
a fight, a battle
a dispute, strife, quarrel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)

πόλεμος pólemos, pol'-em-os; from πέλομαι pélomai (to bustle); warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series):—battle, fight, war.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon [?] (Jump to Scripture Index)

STRONGS G4171:

πόλεμος πολέμου, ὁ (from ΠΑΛΩ, πολέω, to turn, to range about, whence Latinpello, bellum; (but cf. Fick 1:671; Vanicek, 513)) (from Homer down), the Sept. for מִלְחָמָה;
1. properly,
a. war: Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7; Luke 14:31; Luke 21:9; Hebrews 11:31; in imitation of the Hebrew מִלְחָמָה עָשָׂה followed by אֵת or עִם (Genesis 14:2; Deuteronomy 20:12, 20), πόλεμον ποιεῖν μετά τίνος, Revelation 11:7; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:7 (here L omits; WH Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); Revelation 19:19 (cf. μετά, I. 2 d.).
b. a fight, a battle (more precisely μάχη; "in Homer (where Iliad 7, 174 it is used even of single combat) and Hesiod the sense of battle prevails; in Attic that of tear" (Liddell and Scott, under the word); cf. Trench, § 86:and (in partial modification) Schmidt, chapter 138, 5 and 6): 1 Corinthians 14:8; Hebrews 11:34; Revelation 9:7, 9; Revelation 12:7; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 20:8.
2. a dispute, strife, quarrel: πόλεμοι καί μάχαι, James 4:1 (Sophocles El. 219; Plato, Phaedo, p. 66 c.).

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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis: 14:2
Deuteronomy: 20:12; 20:20
Matthew: 24:6
Mark: 13:7
Luke: 14:31; 21:9
1 Corinthians: 14:8
Hebrews: 11:31; 11:34
James: 4:1
Revelation: 9:7; 9:9; 11:7; 12:7; 12:17; 13:7; 16:14; 19:19; 20:8

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Strong's Number G4171 matches the Greek πόλεμος (polemos),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in '2Ki' in the LXX Greek.

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2Ki 3:7 - And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

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2Ki 3:26 - When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.

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2Ki 8:28 - He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

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2Ki 9:16 - Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.

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2Ki 13:25 - Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.

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2Ki 14:7 - He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.

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2Ki 16:5 - Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.

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2Ki 18:20 - Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?

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2Ki 24:16 - And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.

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2Ki 25:4 - Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

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