Strong's Concordance
strateuó: to make war, hence to serve as a soldier
Original Word: στρατεύομαιPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: strateuó
Phonetic Spelling: (strat-yoo'-om-ahee)
Short Definition: I wage war, fight
Definition: I wage war, fight, serve as a soldier; fig: of the warring lusts against the soul.
HELPS Word-studies
4754 strateúomai – properly, to contend, fighting like a soldier in war; (figuratively) to engage in spiritual warfare.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4754: στρατεύωστρατεύω: middle, present
στρατεύομαι; 1 aorist subjunctive 2 person singular
στρατευση (
1 Timothy 1:18 T Tr text
WH marginal reading); (
στρατός (related to
στρωννύω, which see), an encampment, an army); from
Herodotus down;
to make a military expedition, to lead soldiers to war or to battle (spoken of a commander); to do military duty, be on active service, be a soldier"; in the N. T. only in the middle (Greek writings use the active and the deponent middle indiscriminately; cf.
Passow, under the word, 1 at the end; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 2)): properly, of soldiers,
Luke 3:14;
1 Corinthians 9:7;
2 Timothy 2:4;
to fight (
A. V. war): tropically, of the conflicts of the apostolic office,
2 Corinthians 10:3; with a kindred accusative (
Winers Grammar, § 32, 2;
Buttmann, § 131, 5),
τήν καλήν στρατείαν,
1 Timothy 1:18 (
ἱεράν καί εὐγενῆ στρατείαν στρατεύσασθαι περί τῆς εὐσεβείας, 4 Macc. 9:23); of passions that disquiet the soul,
James 4:1;
1 Peter 2:11. (Compare:
ἀντιστρατεύομαι.)
