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στρατεύομαι

strateúomai · G4754 · Greek · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to battle, to fight, to engage in war, warfare

    To engage in war or battle as a soldier

    Examples

    2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle according to the flesh,

    1 Timothy 1:18 This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight,

    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?

  2. to serve as a soldier, to be a soldier

    (Derivative of στρατιώτης ‘soldier,’) To engage in military activity as a soldier

    Examples

    Luke 3:14 And soldiers also were questioning him, saying, “What are we to do, we as well?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone, nor harass anyone, and be content with your wages.”

    1 Corinthians 9:7 Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not consume some of the milk of the flock?

    2 Timothy 2:4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him.

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

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 6 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
To serve as a soldier, to be a soldier55.18
The verb describes ordinary military service as an occupation. Paul asks rhetorically, “Who at any time serves as a soldier at his own expense?” (1 Corinthians 9:7).
To battle, to fight, to engage in war, warfare55.4
The same verb also describes waging war, used figuratively of spiritual conflict. Paul writes, “though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle according to the flesh” (2 Corinthians 10:3).
Word family 11 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

στρατιά stratiá · G4756 · throng of angels, ranks of angels, the stars of heaven · 2×στρατιώτης stratiṓtēs · G4757 · soldier · 26×στρατηγός stratēgós · G4755 · magistrate, ruler of a city, commander of the Temple guard · 10×στράτευμα stráteuma · G4753 · army, some soldiers, a few soldiers · 8×στρατεύομαιstrateúomai · G4754στρατεία strateía · G4752 · war, warfare · 2×συστρατιώτης systratiṓtēs · G4961 · one who struggles along with, one who works arduously along with, fellow struggler · 2×ἀντιστρατεύομαι antistrateúomai · G497 · to be clearly against, to actively oppose · 1×στρατολογέω stratologéō · G4758 · to enlist soldiers, to be an army commander, to be an army officer · 1×στρατόπεδον stratópedon · G4760 · army · 1×στρατοπεδάρχης stratopedárchēs · G4759 · a ruler of an army, i.e, a Prætorian præfect · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : middle, present στρατεύομαι; 1 aorist subjunctive 2 person singular στρατευση (1 Tim…
: middle, present στρατεύομαι; 1 aorist subjunctive 2 person singular στρατευση (1 Tim 1:18 T Tr text WH marginal reading); (στρατός (related to στρωννύω, which see), an encampment, an army); from Herodotus down; to make a military expedition, to lead soldiers to war or to battle (spoken of a commander); to do military duty, be on active service, be a soldier"; in the N. T. only in the middle (Greek writings use the active and the deponent middle indiscriminately; cf. Passow, under the word, 1 at the end; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2)): properly, of soldiers, Lk 3:14; 1 Cor 9:7; 2 Tim 2:4; to fight (A. V. war): tropically, of the conflicts of the apostolic office, 2 Cor 10:3; with a kindred accusative (Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; Buttmann, § 131, 5), τήν καλήν στρατείαν, 1 Tim 1:18 (ἱεράν καί εὐγενῆ στρατείαν στρατεύσασθαι περί τῆς εὐσεβείας, 4 Macc. 9:23); of passions that disquiet the soul, Jas 4:1; 1 Pet 2:11. (Compare: ἀντιστρατεύομαι.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
To Fight4 occurrencesSoldiers, Officers3 occurrences

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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