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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)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:502,904

Trench's Synonyms: lxxxvi. πόλεμος, μάχη.

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).
  1. a war

  2. a fight, a battle

  3. 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.
STRONGS G4171:
πόλεμος πολέμου, (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.).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4171 matches the Greek πόλεμος (polemos),
which occurs 22 times in 22 verses in '1Ch' in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:10 - In the days of Saul they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand, so that they [fn]occupied their tents throughout the [fn]land east of Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 -

The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant men, men who carried shield and sword and shot with a bow and were skillful in battle, totaled 44,760 who went to war.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:19 - They made war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:20 - They were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were handed over to them; for they cried out to God in the battle, and He answered their prayers because they trusted in Him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:22 - For many fell mortally wounded, because the war was of God. And they settled in their place until the exile.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:4 - And with them by their generations according to their fathers’ households were thirty-six thousand [fn]troops of the army for war; for they had many wives and sons.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:3 - The battle became severe against Saul, and the archers found him; and he was wounded by the archers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:13 - He was with David at [fn]Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered together there to battle, and there was a plot of land full of barley; and the people fled from the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:1 -

Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still restricted because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:8 -

From the Gadites valiant mighty men went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness, men trained for war who could handle a large shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:19 -

From Manasseh some also defected to David when he was about to go to battle with the Philistines against Saul. But they did not help them, because the governors of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “At the cost of our heads he might defect to his master Saul.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:33 - From Zebulun, there were fifty thousand who went out in the army, who could draw up in battle formation with all kinds of weapons of war and helped David [fn]with an undivided heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:35 - From the Danites who could draw up in battle formation, there were 28,600.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:36 - From Asher there were forty thousand who went out in the army to draw up in battle formation.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:15 - “When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the baka-shrubs, then you shall go out to battle, for God will have gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:9 - The sons of Ammon came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of the city; and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:14 - So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to battle against the Arameans, and they fled from him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:4 -

Now it came about after this, that war [fn]broke out at [fn]Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite [fn]killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the [fn]giants, and they were subdued.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:5 - And there was war with the Philistines again, and Elhanan the son of Jair [fn]killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:6 - Again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot; and he also was descended from the giants.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:8 - “But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have [fn]waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - They dedicated [fn]part of the spoils won in battles to repair the house of the LORD.
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