Greek verb · G4170
πολεμέω
polemeopol-em-eh'-o
to fight
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: poleméō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4170is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4170
to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: fight, (make) war.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
polemeo is rendered "to fight". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.James 4:2You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
James 4:2πολεμεῖτε
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seven uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I will make war1
- makes war1
- to make war1
- to war1
- war will make1
- warred1
- wrangle1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πόλεμος | polemos | war | Uses18 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πολεμῆσαι2
- ἐπολέμησεν1
- πολεμεῖ1
- πολεμεῖτε1
- πολεμήσουσιν1
- πολεμήσω1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AAI-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FAI-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PAI-2P
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
James
one use
You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- πολεμεῖτεpolemeiteverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: wrangle
Revelation
six uses
Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.
- πολεμήσωpolemesoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will make war
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
- πολεμῆσαιpolemesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to war
- ἐπολέμησενepolemesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: warred
They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?”
- πολεμῆσαιpolemesaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make war
They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
- πολεμήσουσινpolemesousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: war will make
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
- πολεμεῖpolemeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: makes war
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.