STRONGS G4171:
πόλεμος πολέμου,
ὁ (from
ΠΑΛΩ,
πολέω, to turn, to range about, whence Latin
pello, bellum; (but cf.
Fick 1:671;
Vanicek, 513)) (from
Homer down), the
Sept. for
מִלְחָמָה;
1. properly,
a. war:
Matthew 24:6;
Mark 13:7;
Luke 14:31;
Luke 21:9;
Hebrews 11:31; in imitation of the Hebrew
מִלְחָמָה עָשָׂה followed by
אֵת or
עִם (
Genesis 14:2;
Deuteronomy 20:12,
20),
πόλεμον ποιεῖν μετά τίνος,
Revelation 11:7;
Revelation 12:17;
Revelation 13:7 (here
L omits;
WH Tr marginal reading brackets the clause);
Revelation 19:19 (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 Corinthians 14:8;
Hebrews 11:34;
Revelation 9:7,
9;
Revelation 12:7;
Revelation 16:14;
Revelation 20:8.
2. a dispute, strife, quarrel:
πόλεμοι καί μάχαι,
James 4:1 (
Sophocles El. 219;
Plato, Phaedo, p. 66 c.).
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