Lexical Summary
polemeó: To wage war, to fight, to engage in battle
Original Word: πολεμέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: polemeó
Pronunciation: po-leh-MEH-o
Phonetic Spelling: (pol-em-eh'-o)
KJV: fight, (make) war
NASB: wage war, make war, quarrel, waged, wages war, waging
Word Origin: [from G4171 (πόλεμος - war)]
1. to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle
{literally or figuratively}
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
to battle, make war.
From polemos; to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. To battle (literally or figuratively): -fight, (make) war.
see GREEK polemos
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
polemosDefinitionto make war
NASB Translationmake war (1), quarrel (1), wage war (2), waged (1), wages war (1), waging (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4170: πολεμέωπολεμέω,
πολέμῳ; future
πολεμήσω; 1 aorist
ἐπολέμησα; (
πόλεμος); (from
Sophocles and
Herodotus down); the
Sept. chiefly for
נִלְחַם;
to war, carry on war; to fight:
Revelation 19:11;
μετά τίνος (on which construction see
μετά, I. 2 d., p. 403{b}),
Revelation 2:16;
Revelation 12:7 (where
Rec. κατά; (cf. on this verse
Buttmann, § 140, 14 and under the word
μετά as above));
Revelation 13:4;
Revelation 17:14; equivalent to
to wrangle, quarrel, James 4:2.