Genesis 14:2
That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
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War
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Revelation 19:19
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
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Genesis
11 verses
Exodus
55 verses
Numbers
3130 verses
Deuteronomy
1010 verses
Joshua
1717 verses
Judges
1111 verses
1 Samuel
88 verses
2 Samuel
99 verses
1 Kings
109 verses
2 Kings
88 verses
1 Chronicles
2422 verses
2 Chronicles
1818 verses
Job
33 verses
Psalms
77 verses
Proverbs
22 verses
Ecclesiastes
33 verses
Song of Solomon
11 verses
Isaiah
99 verses
Jeremiah
1919 verses
Ezekiel
66 verses
Daniel
22 verses
Joel
32 verses
Micah
33 verses
Luke
22 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
1 Timothy
11 verses
James
22 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
88 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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מִלְחָמָה
milchâmâh · mil-khaw-maw'
150 times translated as this KJV form315 total Strong's occurrences
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. war-fare)
Strong's KJV usage: battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 14:2Strong's last: Micah 4:3
Open full H4421 profile →צָבָא
tsâbâʼ · tsaw-baw'
41 times translated as this KJV form483 total Strong's occurrences
a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
Strong's KJV usage: appointed time, ( ) army, ( ) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Strong's first: Numbers 1:3Strong's last: Job 10:17
Open full H6635 profile →לָחַם
lâcham · law-kham'
9 times translated as this KJV form177 total Strong's occurrences
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
Strong's KJV usage: devour, eat, × ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 20:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 21:2
Open full H3898 profile →πόλεμος
pólemos · pol'-em-os
6 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series)
Strong's KJV usage: :--battle, fight, war.
Strong's first: Luke 14:31Strong's last: Revelation 19:19
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poleméō · pol-em-eh'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to be (engaged) in warfare, i.e. to battle (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fight, (make) war.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: James 4:2Strong's last: Revelation 19:11
Open full G4170 profile →στρατεύομαι
strateúomai · strat-yoo'-om-ahee
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to serve in a military campaign; figuratively, to execute the apostolate (with its arduous duties and functions), to contend with carnal inclinations
Strong's KJV usage: :--soldier, (go to) war(-fare).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:3Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:11
Open full G4754 profile →קְרָב
qᵉrâb · ker-awb'
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
hostile encounter
Strong's KJV usage: battle, war.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 55:21Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 9:18
Open full H7128 profile →חַיִל
chayil · khah'-yil
2 times translated as this KJV form238 total Strong's occurrences
probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength
Strong's KJV usage: able, activity, ( ) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, ( ) valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:18Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 33:14
Open full H2428 profile →στράτευμα
stráteuma · strat'-yoo-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
an armament, i.e. (by implication) a body of troops (more or less extensive or systematic)
Strong's KJV usage: :--army, soldier, man of war.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 23:11Strong's last: Luke 23:11
Open full G4753 profile →אִישׁ
ʼîysh · eesh
1 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 18:10Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 18:10
Open full H376 profile →לָחֶם
lâchem · law-khem'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
battle
Strong's KJV usage: war.
Strong's first: Judges 5:8Strong's last: Judges 5:8
Open full H3901 profile →קֹבֶל
qôbel · ko'-bel
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a battering-ram
Strong's KJV usage: war.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 26:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:9
Open full H6904 profile →קְרָב
qᵉrâb · ker-awb'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: war.
Strong's first: Daniel 7:21Strong's last: Daniel 7:21
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H4421
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
H4421
Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
H4421
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
H3898
Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
H4421
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
H4421
The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
H4421
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
H4421
And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
H4421
Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.
H4421
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
H4421
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
H4421
How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
H4421
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
H4421
Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
H4421
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
H4421
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
H4421
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
H4421
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
H4421
He took also out of the city an eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
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war
WAR, noun [G., to perplex, embroil, disturb. The primary sense of the root is to strive, struggle, urge, drive, or to turn, to twist.]
1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, either for defense, or for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce or acquisition of territory, or for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other. These objects are accomplished by the slaughter or capture of troops, and the capture and destruction of ships, towns and property. Among rude nations, war is often waged and carried on for plunder. As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. When war is commenced by attacking a nation in peace, it si called an offensive war and such attack is aggressive. When war is undertaken to repel invasion or the attacks of an enemy, it is called defensive, and a defensive war is considered as justifiable. Very few of the wars that have desolated nations and deluged the earth with blood, have been justifiable. Happy would it be for mankind, if the prevalence of Christian principles might ultimately extinguish the spirit of war and if the ambition to be great, might yield to the ambition of being good.
Preparation for war is sometimes the best security for peace.
2. In poetical language, instruments of war
His complement of stores, and total war
3. Poetically, forces; army.
Oer the embattled ranks the waves return, and overwhelm their war
4. The profession of arms; art of war; as a fierce man of war Isaiah 2:4.
5. Hostility; state of opposition or contest; act of opposition.
6. Enmity; disposition to contention.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. Psalms 55:21.
Man of war in naval affairs, a ship of large size, armed and equipped for attack or defense.
Holy war a crusade; a war undertaken to deliver the Holy Land, or Judea, from infidels. These holy wars were carried on by most unholy means.
WAR, verb intransitive
1. To make war; to invade or attack a nation or state with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; or to be in a state of contest by violence.
He teacheth my hands to war 2 Samuel 22:35.
And they warred against eh Midianites. Numbers 31:3.
Why should I war without the walls of Troy?
2. To contend; to strive violently; to be in a state of opposition.
Lusts which war against the soul. 1 Peter 2:11.
WAR, verb transitive
1. To make war upon; as, to war the Scot. [Not used.]
2. To carry on a contest.
That thou mightest war a good warfare. 1 Timothy 1:18.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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