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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 154 times in 150 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 14:14–1Sa 17:32)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:14 - “The LORD will fight for you while you keep silent.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - He [fn]caused their chariot wheels to swerve, and He made them drive with difficulty; so the Egyptians said, “Let [fn]us flee from Israel, for the LORD is fighting for them against the Egyptians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:8 - Then Amalek came and fought against Israel at Rephidim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:16 - and he said, “[fn]The LORD has sworn; the LORD will have war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:1 - When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the [fn]Negev, heard that Israel was coming by the way of [fn]Atharim, then he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26 - For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:41 - “Then you said to me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD; we will indeed go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - “And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not among you; otherwise you will be [fn]defeated before your enemies.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:22 - ‘Do not fear them, for the LORD your God is the one fighting for you.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:5 - So all of these kings having agreed to meet, came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:23 - So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:47

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:47 - The territory of the sons of Dan proceeded [fn]beyond them; for the sons of Dan went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. Then they struck it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and [fn]settled in it; and they called [fn]Leshem Dan after the name of Dan their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - ‘You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - Now it came about after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel inquired of the LORD, saying, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into [fn]the territory allotted me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and [fn]I in turn will go with you into [fn]the territory allotted you.” So Simeon went with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:5 - They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek and fought against him, and they [fn]defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - Afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country and in the [fn]Negev and in the lowland.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - “From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down,
Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples;
From Machir commanders came down,
And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of [fn]office.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:19 - “The kings came and fought;
Then fought the kings of Canaan
At Taanach near the waters of Megiddo;
They took no plunder in silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - “The stars fought from heaven,
From their courses they fought against Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him vigorously.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - for my father fought for you and [fn]risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your [fn]boasting now with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39 - So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - The people, the leaders of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the sons of Ammon? He shall become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - It came about after a while that the sons of Ammon fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - When the sons of Ammon fought against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - and they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our chief that we may fight against the sons of Ammon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “For this reason we have now returned to you, that you may go with us and fight with the sons of Ammon and become head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you take me back to fight against the sons of Ammon and the LORD gives them up [fn]to me, will I become your head?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - Now Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the sons of Ammon, saying, “What is between you and me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:20 - ‘But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people and camped in Jahaz and fought with Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - ‘Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - ‘I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me wrong by making war against me; may the LORD, the Judge, judge today between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah crossed over to the sons of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed [fn]to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - “When I saw that you would not deliver me, I [fn]took my life in my hands and crossed over against the sons of Ammon, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought Ephraim; and the men of Gilead [fn]defeated Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, O Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14 - The sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - Now the sons of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God and said, “Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin?” Then the LORD said, “Judah shall go up first.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines fought and Israel was [fn]defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:20

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - “But they forgot the LORD their God, so He sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, 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 Box 1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he [fn]inflicted punishment.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - and the LORD sent you on a [fn]mission, and said, ‘Go and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are exterminated.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - “If he is able to fight with me and [fn]kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and [fn]kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:32

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

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