ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ, πολεμος
POLEMOS, polemos
Sounds Like: POH-leh-mos
Translations: war, a war, battle, a battle, fight, a fight
From the root: ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a state of armed conflict between different countries or groups, or a particular series of battles or campaigns. It can also refer to a struggle or conflict of any kind. It is typically used in the singular, but can also be found in the plural to denote multiple conflicts or aspects of war.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4171 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Chronicles — 10:3
- Judith — 7:11
- 1 Maccabees — 4:17, 5:31, 8:24, 8:27, 9:7, 9:13, 9:17, 9:45, 9:47
- Psalms — 26:3
- Proverbs — 24:6
- Ecclesiastes — 9:11
- Job — 22:10
- Sirach — 46:6
- Isaiah — 42:25
- Revelation — 12:7
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 13:2
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 7:34
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:137
- Book 5 — 2:174
- Book 6 — 5:68
- Book 7 — 1:20
- Book 13 — 10:273
- Book 14 — 11:268
- Book 16 — 9:271, 10:346
- Book 20 — 9:223, 11:257
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 1:6, 1:20, 5:12, 11:22, 12:1, 20:14
- Book Two — 2:17, 8:36, 13:16, 14:14, 17:17, 19:20
- Book Three — 5:3, 10:19
- Book Four — 3:57, 7:9, 9:18, 9:60
- Book Five — 2:25, 9:71
- Book Six — 1:8, 1:77, 2:76, 3:18, 5:1, 6:28, 7:16, 9:20
- Book Seven — 3:10, 4:33, 5:47, 8:109, 11:18
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 1:10
- Leviticus — 26:5
- Numbers — 21:14
- 1 Samuel — 4:2, 14:23, 14:52, 17:47, 19:8, 31:3
- 2 Samuel — 2:17, 3:1, 18:6, 18:8, 21:15, 21:18, 21:19, 21:20
- 1 Kings — 14:30, 15:7, 15:16, 21:29, 22:1, 22:35
- 2 Kings — 3:26
- 1 Chronicles — 5:22, 10:3, 20:4, 20:5, 20:6
- 2 Chronicles — 13:2, 13:14, 14:6, 15:19, 16:9, 18:34, 27:7
- Ezra (Alpha) — 1:25
- Judith — 7:11
- 1 Maccabees — 4:17, 5:31, 8:24, 8:27, 9:7, 9:13, 9:17, 9:45, 9:47
- Psalms — 26:3
- Proverbs — 24:6
- Ecclesiastes — 9:11
- Job — 22:10
- Sirach — 46:6
- Isaiah — 42:25
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:48
- Ezekiel — 7:15
- Hosea — 10:9
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Revelation — 12:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΟΛΕΜΟΝ — peaceful, unwarlike, without war, a peaceful
- ἘΝΠΟΛΕΜΩ — I am at war, I am engaged in war, I am hostile
- ΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ — war, a war, battle, fight, conflict
- ΠΟΛΕΜ — war, battle, fight, a war, a battle, a fight
- ΠΟΛΕΜΗ — war, a war, battle, a battle, fight, a fight
- ΠΟΛΕΜΗΣΑΤΕ — fight, make war, wage war
- ΠΟΛΕΜΗΣΙ — to wars, for wars, by wars, with wars
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΑ — hostile, enemy, hostile territory, a hostile territory, hostility
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΑΣ — warlike, military, hostile, a warlike, a military, a hostile
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΗ — warlike, military, hostile, pertaining to war
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΟΣ — warlike, hostile, pertaining to war, military, a warlike person
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΩΤΑΤΟΝ — most warlike, most hostile, most skilled in war, the most warlike, the most hostile
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΟΣ — hostile, an enemy, the enemy
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΣΤΗΡΙΩΝ — of instruments of war, of engines of war, of war machines
- ΠΟΛΕΜΙΩΣ — hostilely, in a hostile manner, as an enemy
- ΠΟΛΕΜΟ — war, a war, battle, a battle, conflict, a conflict, (of) war, (of) battle, (of) conflict
- ΠΟΛΕΜΟΙ — wars, battles, conflicts
- ΠΟΛΕΜΟΙΣ — wars, battles, conflicts
- ΠΟΛΕΜΟΝ — war, a war
- ΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ — (of) war, (of) battle, (of) conflict
- ΠΟΛΕΜΟΥΣ — wars, battles
- ΠΟΛΕΜΩ — war, a war, to war, in war
- ΠΟΛΕΜΩΝ — war, battle, fight, of wars, of battles, of fights, Polemon
- ΤΟΝΠΟΛΕΜΟΝ — war, a war
- ΤΟΥΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ — of the war, of a war
- ΤΩΠΟΛΕΜΩ — to war, to the war, to battle, to the battle
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