ἐκπολεμέω
wage war, fight
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκπολεμέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 1:10 ἐκπολεμέω come then, let us deal craftily with them, lest at any time they be increased, and whenever war shall happen to us, these also shall be added to our enemies, and having prevailed against us in war, they will depart out of the land.
- Deuteronomy 1:30 ἐκπολεμέω the Lord your God who goes before your face, he shall fight against them together with you effectually, according to all that he wrought for you in the land of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 20:4 ἐκπολεμέω For it is the Lord your God who advances with you, to fight with you against your enemies, and to save you.
- Deuteronomy 20:10 ἐκπολεμέω And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
- Deuteronomy 20:19 ἐκπολεμέω And if you should besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, you shall not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but you shall eat of it, and shall not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before you into the work of the siege?
- Joshua 9:2 ἐκπολεμέω they came all together at the same time to make war against Joshua and Israel.
- Joshua 10:4 ἐκπολεμέω Come up hither to me, and help me, and let us take Gabaon; for the Gabaonites have gone over to Joshua and to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:12 ἐκπολεμέω And all the children of Israel gathered together to Selo, so as to go up and fight against them.
- Joshua 23:3 ἐκπολεμέω And you⌃ have seen all that the Lord our God has done to all these nations before us; for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.
- Joshua 23:10 ἐκπολεμέω One of you has chased a thousand, for the Lord our God, he fought for you, as he said to us.
About this word
About this word
ἐκπολεμέω (ekpoleméō), “wage war, fight,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 10 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →