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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.
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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 26 times in 23 verses in '1Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:1

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So the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle, and they camped beside Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped in Aphek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - Then the Philistines drew up in battle formation to meet Israel. When the battle [fn]spread, Israel was [fn]defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:10 - Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines advanced to battle Israel. But the LORD thundered with a great [fn]thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were struck down before Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5

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Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:22 - So it came about on the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan, but they were found with Saul and his son Jonathan.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:20 - Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; and behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow Philistine, and there was very great confusion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:22 - When all the men of Israel who had kept themselves hidden in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, they also closely pursued them in the battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:23 - So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle [fn]spread beyond Beth-aven.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:52

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Now the war against the Philistines was severe all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any warrior or any valiant man, he [fn]attached him to his staff.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:1

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Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:2 - Saul and the men of Israel were assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah, and they drew up in battle formation to confront the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle formation? Am I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man as your representative and have him come down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:47 - and that this entire assembly may know that the LORD does not save by sword or by spear; for the battle is the LORD’S, and He will hand you over to us!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8

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When there was war again, David went out and fought the Philistines and [fn]defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled from him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:8 - So Saul summoned all the people for war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - “Please forgive the offense of your slave; for the LORD will certainly make for my lord an [fn]enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - David also said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD certainly will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down in battle and [fn]perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:1

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Now it came about in those days that the Philistines gathered their armed camps for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Know for certain that you will go out with me in the camp, you and your men.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:4 - But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man go back, so that he will return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For how could this man find favor with his lord? Would it not be with the heads of [fn]these men?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:9 - But Achish replied to David, “I know that you are pleasing in my sight, like an angel of God; nevertheless the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go up with us into the battle.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:24 - “And who will listen to you in this matter? For as is the share of the one who goes down into the battle, so shall be the share of the one who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:3 - The battle went heavily against Saul, and the archers found him; and he was gravely wounded by the archers.
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