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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)
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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, 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.).
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 13 times in 13 verses in 'Num' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - “And when you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, so that you will be thought of by the LORD your God, and be saved from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - “So why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder! Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 -

Edom, however, said to him, “You shall not pass through [fn]us, or I will come out with the sword against you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:14 - For that reason it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,

“Waheb in Suphah,

And the [fn]wadis of the Arnon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33 -

Then they turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out against them [fn]with all his people, for battle at Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 - But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 -

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, “This is the statute of the Law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 -

The half, the share of those who went to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 -

But Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, “Should your brothers go to war while you remain here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20 -

So Moses said to them, “If you will do [fn]this, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:27 - while your servants, that is, everyone who is armed for war, cross over in the presence of the LORD to battle, just as my lord says.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - And Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as their property;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - but if they do not cross over with you armed, they shall instead be settled among you in the land of Canaan.”
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