πολεμικός
warlike, of war
Where this word appears
Every passage where πολεμικός 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.
- Deuteronomy 1:41 πολεμικός And you⌃ answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us: and having taken every one his weapons of war, and being gathered together, you⌃ went up to the mountain.
- 1 Samuel 8:12 πολεμικός and his manner shall be to make them to himself captains of hundreds and captains of thousands; and to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and prepare his instruments of war, and the implements of his chariots.
- 2 Samuel 1:27 πολεμικός How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
- 1 Chronicles 12:34 πολεμικός And of Nephthali a thousand captains, and with them men with shields and spears, thirty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 12:38 πολεμικός All these were men of war, setting the army in battle array, with a peaceful mind towards him, and they came to Chebron to make David king over all Israel: and the rest of Israel were of one mind to make David king.
- 2 Chronicles 26:13 πολεμικός and with them was a warrior force, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred: these waged war mightily to help the king against his enemies.
- Jeremiah 21:4 πολεμικός Thus says the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith you⌃ fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
- Jeremiah 31:14 πολεμικός How will you⌃ say, We are strong, and men strong for war?
- Ezekiel 32:27 πολεμικός And they are laid with the giants that fell of old, who went down to Hades with their weapons of war: and they laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities were upon their bones, because they terrified all men during their life.
- Zechariah 9:10 πολεμικός And he shall destroy the chariots out of Ephraim, and the horse out of Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be utterly destroyed; and there shall be abundance and peace out of the nations; and he shall rule over the waters as far as the sea, and the rivers to the ends of the earth.
About this word
About this word
πολεμικός (polemikós), “warlike, of war,” 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 →