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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 28 times in 28 verses in '2Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - Then David said to him, “How did the matter go? Please tell me.” And he answered, “The people have fled from the battle, many of the people are fallen and dead, and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25 - “How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!
Jonathan was slain in your high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:17 - So there was a very fierce battle that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1 - Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David grew stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:6 - Now it was so, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner was strengthening his hold on the house of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - “And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the LORD will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array at the entrance of the gate. And the Syrians of Zoba, Beth Rehob, Ish-Tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - When Joab saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, he chose some of Israel’s best and put them in battle array against the Syrians.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:13 - So Joab and the people who were with him drew near for the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah had come to him, David asked how Joab was doing, and how the people were doing, and how the war prospered.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:19 - and charged the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Joab had sent by him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:6 - So the people went out into the field of battle against Israel. And the battle was in the woods of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:3 - And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:10 - “But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now therefore, why do you say nothing about bringing back the king?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:15 - When the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants with him went down and fought against the Philistines; and David grew faint.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17 - But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:18 - Now it happened afterward that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbechai the Hushathite killed Saph,[fn] who was one of the sons of the giant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - Again there was war at Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim[fn] the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:35 - He teaches my hands to make war,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:40 - For You have armed me with strength for the battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:9 - And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo,[fn] the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel had retreated.
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