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πολεμέω G4170
V-PIA-3S  |  7× in 1 sense
to wage war, fight
1. to wage war, fight To wage war, make war, or fight in armed conflict. Used in the NT exclusively in Revelation and James, covering both cosmic/apocalyptic warfare (the dragon warring against Michael, Rev 12:7; the Lamb making war in righteousness, Rev 19:11; kings warring against the Lamb, Rev 17:14; Christ warring against the Nicolaitans, Rev 2:16) and interpersonal/spiritual conflict (James 4:2, 'you wage war'). All multilingual glosses converge on a single military/combat semantic field: Arabic yuharib, German kaempfen, French combattre, Hebrew nilham, Korean ssauda, Spanish pelear/hacer guerra. The six auto-split clusters merely reflect inflectional variants (aorist infinitive, present indicative 2P/3S, aorist indicative 3S, future indicative 3P/1S) of one unified sense.
VIOLENCE_CONFLICT Hostility, Strife Fighting and Warfare
AR["أَن-يُحارِبَهُ","أُحارِبُهُمْ","تُحارِبونَ","حارَبَ","سَيُحارِبونَ","لِيُحارِبوا","يُحارِبُ"]·ben["যুদ্ধ-করতে","যুদ্ধ-করব","যুদ্ধ-করবে","যুদ্ধ-করল","যুদ্ধ-করেন","যুদ্ধ-করো"]·DE["kaempfen"]·EN["I-will-war","makes-war","to-war","warred","will-make-war","you-wage-war"]·FR["combattre"]·heb["אִלָּחֵם","יִלָּחֲמוּ","לְהִלָּחֵם","נִלְחַם","נִלְחָם","נִלְחָמִים"]·HI["झगड़ते-हो","युद्ध-करता-है","युद्ध-करूँगा","युद्ध-करेंगे","लड़ना","लड़ने","लड़ा"]·ID["Aku-akan-berperang","Dia-berperang","akan-berperang","berperang","berperang,","kamu-berperang.","untuk-berperang"]·IT["combattere"]·jav["Kawula-badhé-perang","Panjenenganipun-perang","badhé-perang","perang","perang."]·KO["다툰다.","싸우겠다","싸우기-를","싸우려고","싸울-것이니","싸웠으니","전쟁한다"]·PT["guerreais","guerrear","guerrearei","guerrearão","guerreia","guerreou","para-guerrear"]·RU["воевал,","воевать","воюет","воюете.","сражусь","сразятся"]·ES["de-pelear","guerreáis","hace-guerra.","hacer-guerra","harán-guerra","haré-guerra","peleó"]·SW["akapigana,","anapigana.","kupigana","mnafanya-vita","nitapigana","watapigana,"]·TR["onlarla","savaşacaklar","savaşmak","savaşmaya","savaştı","savaşır","savaşırsınız"]·urd["جنگ-کرتا-ہے","جنگ-کرتے-ہو۔","لڑا","لڑنا","لڑوں-گا","لڑیں-گے"]

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πολεμέω, Ionic dialect Iterat. πολεμέεσκε Refs 5th c.BC+: future -ήσωRefs 5th c.BC+: perfect πεπολέμηκα Refs 4th c.BC+ —middle, aorist ἐπολεμησάμην (κατ-) Refs 2nd c.BC+:—passive, πολεμηθήσομαι Refs; πολεμήσομαι in passive sense, Refs 5th c.BC+: aorist ἐπολεμήθην Refs 5th c.BC+perfect πεπολέμημαι (κατα-) Refs: (πόλεμος):— to be at war or make war, Refs; opposed to εἰρήνην ἄγειν, Refs; τινι with