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Lexicon :: Strong's G4170 - polemeō

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πολεμέω
Transliteration
polemeō (Key)
Pronunciation
pol-em-eh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:502,904

Strong’s Definitions

πολεμέω poleméō, pol-em-eh'-o; from G4171; to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle (literally or figuratively):—fight, (make) war.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G4170 in the following manner: make war (3x), fight (3x), war (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G4170 in the following manner: make war (3x), fight (3x), war (1x).

  1. to war, carry on war

  2. to fight

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πολεμέω poleméō, pol-em-eh'-o; from G4171; to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle (literally or figuratively):—fight, (make) war.
STRONGS G4170:
πολεμέω, πολέμῳ; future πολεμήσω; 1 aorist ἐπολέμησα; (πόλεμος); (from Sophocles and Herodotus down); the Sept. chiefly for נִלְחַם; to war, carry on war; to fight: Revelation 19:11; μετά τίνος (on which construction see μετά, I. 2 d., p. 403{b}), Revelation 2:16; Revelation 12:7 (where Rec. κατά; (cf. on this verse Buttmann, § 140, 14 and under the word μετά as above)); Revelation 13:4; Revelation 17:14; equivalent to to wrangle, quarrel, James 4:2.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

James
4:2
Revelation
2:16; 12:7; 13:4; 17:14; 19:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4170 matches the Greek πολεμέω (polemeō),
which occurs 18 times in 18 verses in '1Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:9 - Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20 - that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor,[fn] and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:1 - Now they told David, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:5 - And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:1 - In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:11 - So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:1 - Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
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