Greek verb · G4754
στρατεύομαι
strateuomaistrat-yoo'-om-ahee
to battle
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: strateúomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4754is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4754
to serve in a military campaign; figuratively, to execute the apostolate (with its arduous duties and functions), to contend with carnal inclinations
The King James renders it: soldier, (go to) war(-fare).
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
strateuomai is rendered "to battle". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
Luke 3:14στρατευόμενοι
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in seven of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do we wage war1
- serves as a soldier1
- serving as a soldier1
- those being soldiers1
- war1
- warring1
- you may war1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| στρατιώτης | stratiotes | soldier | Uses26 |
| στρατηγός | strategos | officer/magistrate | Uses10 |
| στράτευμα | strateuma | troops | Uses8 |
| στρατιά | stratia | army | Uses2 |
| στρατεία | strateia | warfare | Uses2 |
| στρατολογέω | stratologeo | to enlist | Uses1 |
| στρατόπεδον | stratopedon | army camp | Uses1 |
| στρατοπεδάρχης | stratopedarches | commander | Usesnot recorded |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- στρατεύεται1
- στρατεύῃ1
- στρατευόμεθα1
- στρατευόμενοι1
- στρατευόμενος1
- στρατευομένων1
- στρατεύονται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · present middle, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PMI-1P
- verb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PMI-3P
- verb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PMI-3S
- verb · present middle, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural1V-PMP-GPF
- verb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-PMP-NPM
- verb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-PMP-NSM
- verb · present middle, subjunctive · 2nd person singular1V-PMS-2S
Luke
one use
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
- στρατευόμενοιstrateuomenoiverb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: those being soldiers
1 Corinthians
one use
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
- στρατεύεταιstrateuetaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: serves as a soldier
2 Corinthians
one use
For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
- στρατευόμεθαstrateuomethaverb · present middle, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: do we wage war
1 Timothy
one use
Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,
- στρατεύῃstrateueverb · present middle, subjunctive · 2nd person singulartagged: you may war
2 Timothy
one use
A soldier refrains from entangling himself in civilian affairs, in order to please the one who enlisted him.
- στρατευόμενοςstrateuomenosverb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: serving as a soldier
James
one use
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
- στρατευομένωνstrateuomenonverb · present middle, participle · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: warring
1 Peter
one use
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
- στρατεύονταιstrateuontaiverb · present middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: 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.