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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 18 times in 16 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6 - and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7 - and when ye may hear of wars and reports of wars, be not troubled, for these behove to be, but the end is not yet;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:31 - 'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:9 - and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end is not immediately.'

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:8 - for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:34 - quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jas 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1 - Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:7 - And the likenesses of the locusts are like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:9 - and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings is as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:7 - 'And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:7 - And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:17 - and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:7 - and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:14 - for they are spirits of demons, doing signs -- which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty; --

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:19 - And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:8 - and he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are in the four corners of the earth -- Gog and Magog -- to gather them together to war, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea;
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