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Strong's #4754: strateuomai (pronounced strat-yoo'-om-ahee)

middle voice from the base of 4756; to serve in a military campaign; figuratively, to execute the apostolate (with its arduous duties and functions), to contend with carnal inclinations:--soldier, (go to) war(-fare).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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strateuomai

1) to make a military expedition, to lead soldiers to war or to battle, (spoken of a commander)

2) to do military duty, be on active service, be a soldier

3) to fight

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice from the base of G4756

Citing in TDNT: 7:701, 1091




Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Luke 3:14: "And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what"
1 Corinthians 9:7: "Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard,"
2 Corinthians 10:3: "in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:"
1 Timothy 1:18: "that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;"
2 Timothy 2:4: "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please"
James 4:1: "even of your lusts that war in your members?"
1 Peter 2:11: "from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"









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