noun · feminine
strateias
Strong’sG4752
warfare, military service
stem stratei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
στρατεία (on the orthogr., v. Deiss., BS, 181 f.), -ας, ἡ
(< στρατεύω), [in LXX chiefly for צָבָא;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4752 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstrat-i'-ah
military service, i.e. (figuratively) the apostolic career (as one of hardship and danger)
Fromfrom G4754;
King Jameswarfare.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ηΐη, ἡ, (στρατεύω) expedition, campaign, στρατηΐην ποιεῖσθαι ἐς.., ἐπὶ.., Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ στρατείας coming from war, after service done, Refs 4th c.BC+; κατὰ τὴν Σιτάλκου σ. about the time of his expedition, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ στρατείας εἶναι to be on foreign service, Refs 5th c.BC+; so ἐν στρατείᾳ ὄντας Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τῇ σ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; παραγγέλλειν τινὶ σ. κατὰ γῆν Refs 5th c.BC+; στρατείαν ξυνεξελθεῖνRefs 4th c.BC+; τῆς σ. γιγνομένης ἐκ καταλόγου Refs 4th c.BC+; frequently in plural, military service, warfare, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς ταῖς αὑτοῦ σ. in addition to the campaigns which he is bound to serve, Refs 4th c.BC+; στρατείας στρατεύεσθαι Refs; ἀφειμένος στρατείας, = Latin exauctoratus, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 σ. ἐν τοῖς ἐπωνύμοις levy of those liable to serve in the year of such and such archons, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 σ. ἡ ἐν τοῖς μέρεσιν expedition for special service, to train the young soldiers next after serving as περίπολοι, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 military discipline, ἡ ἀκριβὴς σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 military appointment, ἐπώλησε στρατείας Refs —στρατιά is a constant variant, and is sometimes undoubtedly used= στρατεία (campaign), see at {στρατιά} Refs 5th c.BC+; but στρατεία= army, expeditionary force is very rare, Refs 5th c.BC+ never = army, but both -εία Refs 3rd c.BC+ = campaign.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | strateias | strateiais |
| object accusative | strateian1×στρατείαν | strateiain |
| direct address vocative | strateiar | strateiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | strateiau1×στρατείας | strateiaiu |
| to, for dative | strateia | strateiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
strateia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
strateian“fight”objectaccusative singular1×
1 Timothy 1:18… hina strateuoseiō en autai tan kalan strateian,… them you may fight the good fight,
strateiau“warfare”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 10:4teim gar hopleim tau strateiau nu ouk sarkikeim alla dunateim to …The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the …