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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.
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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 BoxJer 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 save you,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:20 -

“Then I will make you to this people

A fortified wall of bronze;

And though they fight against you,

They will not prevail over you;

For I am with you to save you

And rescue you,” declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are making war against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:5

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:24 - ‘Behold, the assault ramps have reached the city to take it; and the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the plague; and what You have spoken has come to pass; and behold, You see it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 offered 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 BoxJer 34:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:1 -

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:7

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:22

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:10

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:4 - Then the officials said to the king, “Please have this man put to death, since he is [fn]discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and [fn]all the people, by speaking words like these to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 large [fn]pool that is in Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:27

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:30 -

The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting,

They stay in the strongholds;

Their strength is [fn]exhausted,

They are becoming like women;

Their homes are set on fire,

The bars of her gates are broken.

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