Greek noun (masculine) · G4171
πόλεμος
polemospol'-em-os
war; = μάχη, a fight, battle
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pólemos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4171is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4171
warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series)
The King James renders it: battle, fight, 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
polemos is rendered "war; = μάχη, a fight, battle". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "war".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 24:6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Matthew 24:6πολέμους
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's eighteen uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: war, and = μάχη, a fight, battle.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| warMat.24:6 | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 24:6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed… |
| = μάχη, a fight, battle1Co.14:8 | Tagged as
| Where1 Corinthians 14:8Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle? |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| πολεμέω | polemeo | to fight | Uses7 |
The words it stands beside
All 18, 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
- πόλεμον10
- πολέμους3
- πολέμων2
- πόλεμοι1
- πόλεμος1
- πολέμῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular10N-ASM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural3N-APM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2N-GPM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Matthew
two uses
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
- πολέμουςpolemousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: wars
- πολέμωνpolemonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of wars
Mark
two uses
When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
- πολέμουςpolemousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: wars
- πολέμωνpolemonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of wars
Luke
two uses
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: war
When you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be alarmed. These things must happen first, but the end is not imminent.”
- πολέμουςpolemousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: wars
1 Corinthians
one use
Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: battle
Hebrews
one use
quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
- πολέμῳpolemonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: war
James
one use
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
- πόλεμοιpolemoinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: disputes
Revelation
nine uses
And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: battle
They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: battle
When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: war
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
- πόλεμοςpolemosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: war
And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: war
Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: war
These are demonic spirits that perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: battle
Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies assembled to wage war against the One seated on the horse, and against His army.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: war
and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
- πόλεμονpolemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.