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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 17 times in 16 verses in '2Ch' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:1 -

Then Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who could wage war, to fight against Israel to return the kingdom to Rehoboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, “You shall not go up and fight against your brothers; return every man to his house, for this thing is from Me.”’” So they listened to the words of Yahweh and returned from going against Jeroboam.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:15 -

Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the [fn]records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical record? Now there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:12 - “And behold, God is with us at our head and His priests with the signal trumpets to raise the shout of war against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers, for you will not succeed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:6 - “And nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God threw them into confusion with every kind of distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:10 -

Now the dread of Yahweh was on all the kingdoms of the lands which were around Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:30 - Now the king of Aram had commanded the commanders of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:31 - Now it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel,” and they turned to fight against him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him, and God incited them away from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:17 - ‘You need not fight in this battle; take your stand—stand and see the salvation of Yahweh on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for Yahweh is with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:22 - When they began singing for joy and praising, Yahweh set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were [fn]defeated.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:29 - And the dread of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that Yahweh had fought against the enemies of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:6 - So he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they caused by striking him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Aram. And [fn]Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:6

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Then he went out and fought against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the area of Ashdod and among the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:2 - Then Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he had set his face to make war on Jerusalem,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:8 - “With him is only an arm of flesh, but with us is Yahweh our God to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people were sustained by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:22 - However, Josiah would not turn [fn]away from him, but disguised himself in order to make war with him; nor did he listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to make war on the plain of Megiddo.
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