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. 7×
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…