πόλεμος
pólemos · G4171 · Greek · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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war, fighting
Act of engaging in open warfare
ExamplesMatthew 24:6 “And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
Luke 14:31 “Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to face the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
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fight, war
(Figurative extension of meaning of πόλεμος ‘war,’) Act of engaging in serious and protracted conflict, often involving a series of attacks
ExamplesHebrews 11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
James 4:1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is the source not your pleasures that wage war in your body’s parts?
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡμέραday 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γίνομαιto become, to happen, to be 1
What is done to itIt is the object
7 occurrences in 2 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 4
- ἀκούωto hear 3
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πόθενfrom where?, how? 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto 12
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀκοήhearing, report, message 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh · H4421 · war, battle, to draw up a battle line
- Greek πόλεμος and Hebrew מִלְחָמָה are direct translation equivalents denoting warfare, whether a single military engagement or a sustained campaign; πόλεμος is the standard Septuagint rendering of מִלְחָמָה.
- קְרָב qᵉrâb · H7128 · battle, war
- Hebrew קְרָב denotes battle or war with the same semantic range as Greek πόλεμος, both covering armed conflict whether a single engagement or sustained warfare; the two function as direct translation equivalents.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Fight, war39.26
- πόλεμος, the corresponding noun, names conflict or fighting, used figuratively of Jesus's teaching on being prepared before undertaking a costly commitment. Luke records this teaching: “‘Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to face the one coming against him with twenty thousand?’” (Luke 14:31).
- War, fighting55.5
- Most often, the noun names literal armed warfare. Matthew's Olivet Discourse records Jesus's warning: “‘And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end’” (Matthew 24:6).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πολέμου, ὁ (from ΠΑΛΩ, πολέω, to turn, to range about, whence Latinpello, bellum; (but…
1. properly,
a. war: Mt 24:6; Mk 13:7; Lk 14:31; Lk 21:9; Heb 11:31; in imitation of the Hebrew מִלְחָמָה עָשָׂה followed by אֵת or עִם (Gen 14:2; Deut 20:12, Deut 20:20), πόλεμον ποιεῖν μετά τίνος, Rev 11:7; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:7 (here L omits; WH Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); (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 Cor 14:8; Heb 11:34; Rev 9:7, Rev 9:9; Rev 12:7; Rev 16:14; Rev 20:8.
2. a dispute, strife, quarrel: πόλεμοι καί μάχαι, Jas 4:1 (Sophocles El. 219; Plato, Phaedo, p. 66 c.).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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