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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 153 times in 149 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Exo 14:14–1Sa 17:32)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:14 - Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:25 - And he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for Jehovah fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:8 - Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:16 - And he said, Jehovah hath sworn: Jehovah will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:1 - And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:26

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:41 - Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah our God commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - And Jehovah said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:22 - Ye shall not fear them; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:5 - And all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:47 - And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of Jehovah, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:5 - And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 - And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 -
Out of Ephraim came down they whose root is in Amalek;
After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples;
Out of Machir came down governors,
And out of Zebulun they that handle the marshal’s staff.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:19 -
The kings came and fought;
Then fought the kings of Canaan,
In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo:
They took no gain of money.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with Midian? And they did chide with him sharply.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, that thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out now, I pray, and fight with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:39 - And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:45 - And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:18 - And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:6 - and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:8 - And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and thou shalt be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Jehovah deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:12 - And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:20 - But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - And now art thou anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: Jehovah, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:32 - So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Jehovah delivered them into his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 - And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thy house upon thee with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:3 - And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:4 - Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:14 - And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up first.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:9 - Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20

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

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - But they forgat Jehovah their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host 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 Box1Sa 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, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:18 - and Jehovah sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:9 - If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

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