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Lexicon :: Strong's G4171 - polemos

Aa
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 18 times in 16 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:6 - And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:7 - And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:31 - Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:9 - And when news of wars and troubled times comes to your ears, have no fear; for these things have to be, but the end will not be now.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 14:8 - For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:34 - Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJas 4:1 - What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:7 - And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:9 - And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:7 - And when they have come to the end of their witness, the beast which comes up out of the great deep will make war on them and overcome them and put them to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:7 - And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:17 - And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:7 - And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:14 - For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:19 - And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, come together to make war against him who was seated on the horse and against his army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:8 - And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.
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