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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 15 times in 15 verses in 'Jer' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - “And they will fight against you, but they will not overcome you, for I am with you to deliver you,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 -

“Then I will make you to this people

A fortified wall of bronze;

And they will fight against you,

But they will not prevail against you,

For I am with you to save you

And deliver you,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5 - “I Myself will war against you with an outstretched hand and a strong arm, even in anger and wrath and great indignation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Behold, the siege ramps have come to the city to capture it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the pestilence; and what You have spoken has happened; and behold, You see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - “And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have burned incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 -

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his military force, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his [fn]dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7 - when the military force of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22 - ‘Behold, I am going to command,’ declares Yahweh, ‘and I will cause them to return to this city; and they will fight against it and capture it and burn it with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8 - “The Chaldeans will also return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10 - ‘For even if you had struck down the entire military force of the Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men remaining among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is making the hands of the men of war who remain in this city as well as the hands of all the people limp, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking peace for this people but rather calamity.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:12 - So they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and they found him by the great [fn]pool that is in Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:27 - “Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he [fn]caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30 -

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting;

They inhabit the strongholds;

Their might is dried up;

They are becoming like women;

Their dwelling places are set on fire;

The bars of her gates are broken.

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