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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 264 times in 256 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 14:2–Jos 22:33)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:2 - went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:8 - Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - Come, let's deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:3 - The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:17 - When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "It is the sound of war in the camp!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:6 - I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - "'As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:37 - They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:9 - If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn't it be better for us to return to Egypt?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - But Edom said to him, "You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:14 - This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, "Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33 - Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 - But Moses was furious with the officers of the army, the commanders over thousands and commanders over hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, "This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded Moses:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 - Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, "Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20 - Then Moses replied, "If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:27 - but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD's presence, just as my lord says."

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - Moses said to them: "If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD's presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan."

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:5 - Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance for Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:19 - But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites' land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot's descendants as their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:24 - Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:32 - When Sihon and all his troops emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:1 - Next we set out on the route to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:1 - When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:2 - As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - "Listen, Israel! Today you are moving forward to do battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted. Do not fear and tremble or be terrified because of them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:5 - Moreover, the officers are to say to the troops, "Who among you has built a new house and not dedicated it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else dedicate it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:6 - Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:7 - Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her."

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:12 - If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:20 - However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 - When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5 - When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7 - When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the LORD to fight on the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah. But he did not realize men were hiding behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:11 - As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from Beth Horon, the LORD threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, all the way to Azekah. They died - in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:24 - When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, "Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came up and put their feet on their necks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:18 - Joshua campaigned against these kings for quite some time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:19 - No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - for the LORD determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.) Then the land was free of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:33 - The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived.

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