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Lexicon :: Strong's G4171 - polemos

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πόλεμος
Transliteration
polemos (Key)
Pronunciation
pol'-em-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From pelomai (to bustle)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:502,904

Trench's Synonyms: lxxxvi. πόλεμος, μάχη.

Strong’s Definitions

πόλεμος pólemos, pol'-em-os; from πέλομαι pélomai (to bustle); warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series):—battle, fight, war.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x

The KJV translates Strong's G4171 in the following manner: war (12x), battle (5x), fight (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 18x
The KJV translates Strong's G4171 in the following manner: war (12x), battle (5x), fight (1x).

  1. a war

  2. a fight, a battle

  3. a dispute, strife, quarrel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πόλεμος pólemos, pol'-em-os; from πέλομαι pélomai (to bustle); warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series):—battle, fight, war.
STRONGS G4171:
πόλεμος πολέμου, ὁ (from ΠΑΛΩ, πολέω, to turn, to range about, whence Latinpello, bellum; (but cf. Fick 1:671; Vanicek, 513)) (from Homer down), the Sept. for מִלְחָמָה;
1. properly,
a. war: Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7; Luke 14:31; Luke 21:9; Hebrews 11:31; in imitation of the Hebrew מִלְחָמָה עָשָׂה followed by אֵת or עִם (Genesis 14:2; Deuteronomy 20:12, 20), πόλεμον ποιεῖν μετά τίνος, Revelation 11:7; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:7 (here L omits; WH Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); Revelation 19:19 (cf. μετά, I. 2 d.).
b. a fight, a battle (more precisely μάχη; "in Homer (where Iliad 7, 174 it is used even of single combat) and Hesiod the sense of battle prevails; in Attic that of tear" (Liddell and Scott, under the word); cf. Trench, § 86:and (in partial modification) Schmidt, chapter 138, 5 and 6): 1 Corinthians 14:8; Hebrews 11:34; Revelation 9:7, 9; Revelation 12:7; Revelation 16:14; Revelation 20:8.
2. a dispute, strife, quarrel: πόλεμοι καί μάχαι, James 4:1 (Sophocles El. 219; Plato, Phaedo, p. 66 c.).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
14:2
Deuteronomy
20:12; 20:20
Matthew
24:6
Mark
13:7
Luke
14:31; 21:9
1 Corinthians
14:8
Hebrews
11:31; 11:34
James
4:1
Revelation
9:7; 9:9; 11:7; 12:7; 12:17; 13:7; 16:14; 19:19; 20:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4171 matches the Greek πόλεμος (polemos),
which occurs 28 times in 28 verses in '2Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - David said to him, “How did things go? Please tell me.” And he said, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:25

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“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!

Jonathan is [fn]slaughtered on your high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:17 - That day the battle was very severe, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated [fn]by the servants of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1

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Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David became steadily stronger, while the house of Saul became steadily weaker.

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Now it happened that while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was [fn]strengthening himself in the house of Saul.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:30 - So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - “And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the baka-shrubs, then you shall [fn]act promptly, for then the LORD will have gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - And the sons of Ammon came out and lined up for battle at the entrance of the [fn]city, while the Arameans of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were stationed by themselves in the field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9

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Now when Joab saw that [fn]the battle was set against him at the front and at the rear, he selected warriors from all the choice men in Israel, and lined them up against the Arameans.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:13 - So Joab and the people who were with him advanced to the battle against the Arameans, and they fled from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:7 - When Uriah came to him, David asked about Joab’s well-being and [fn]that of the people, and the condition of the war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:15 - He had written in the letter [fn]the following: “[fn]Station Uriah on the front line of the [fn]fiercest battle and pull back from him, so that he may be struck and killed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:18 - Then Joab sent a messenger and reported to David all the events of the war.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:19 - He ordered the messenger, saying, “When you have finished telling all the events of the war to the king,

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So the messenger departed and came and reported to David everything that Joab had sent him to tell.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - Then David said to the messenger, “This is what you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing [fn]displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; [fn]fight with determination against the city and overthrow it’; and thereby encourage him.”

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Then the people went out to the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:3 - And the people entered the city surreptitiously that day, just as people who are humiliated surreptitiously flee in battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:10 - “However, Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. Now then, why are you silent about bringing the king back?”

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Now when the Philistines were at war with Israel again, David went down, and his servants with him; and when they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:17 - But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, saying, “You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:18

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Now it came about after this that there was war again with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck and killed Saph, who was among the descendants of the [fn]giant.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:19 - And there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite [fn]killed [fn]Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - And there was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the [fn]giant.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:35 -

“He trains my hands for battle,

So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:40

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:40 -

“For You have encircled me with strength for battle;

You have forced those who rose up against me to bow down under me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:9 - And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there to battle and the men of Israel had [fn]withdrawn.
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