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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Wars of Extermination
• War-Peace
• War
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The Topic Concordance
• War/Weapons
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Wars; Spoils
• Spoils of War, Concubines?
• Instruments of War
Torrey Topical Textbook
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Dictionaries
American Tract Society
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• War, Holy War
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Yom Kippur War
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Wars of the Lord, the Book of the
• War
Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Maccabees, Maccabean War
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Wars of the Lord, Book of the
• War
Hastings' NT Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
• War
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Wars
• War, Fighting
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Where War Was Raging, and the Town
• War of the Peasants
• Peasants, War of the
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People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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• War
Webster Dictionary
• Men-of-War
• War
• War-Beaten
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Chariots of War
• War
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• American Civil War
• American War of 1812
• American War of Independence
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Man of War
• War, Man of
• War; Warfare
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Chariots of War
• Engines of War
• War
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Book of the Wars of the Lord.
• Book of the Wars of the Lord. (2)
• Chariots of War
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Barons' War
• Crimean War
• Holy Wars
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Thirty Years War
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• War of the Peasants (1524-25)
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Bar Kokba and bar Kokba War
• War
• Wars of the Lord, Book of the
Lexicons
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Berry's NT Synonyms
• War, Battle
• ἀντιστρατεύομαι
• πολεμέω
• πόλεμος
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• גָּרָה
• לָחַם , לָחַם
• לָחֶם
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Trench's NT Synonyms
• War

(Eng., "polemics"), "to fight, to make war," is used (a) literally, Revelation 12:7 (twice), RV; 13:4; 17:14; 19:11; (b) metaphorically, Revelation 2:16 , RV; (c) hyperbolically, James 4:2 . See FIGHT , B, Note (1).

used in the Middle Voice, "to make war" (from stratos, "an encamped army"), is translated "to war" in 2 Corinthians 10:3; metaphorically, of spiritual "conflict," 1 Timothy 1:18; 2 Timothy 2:3 , AV; James 4:1; 1 Peter 2:11 . See SOLDIER , B.

not found in the Active Voice antistrateuo, "to make war against" (anti), occurs in Romans 7:23 .

"war" (akin to A, No. 1), is so translated in the RV, for AV, "battle," 1 Corinthians 14:8; Revelation 9:7,9; 16:14; 20:8; for AV, "fight," Hebrews 11:34; AV and RV in James 4:1 , hyperbolically of private "quarrels;" elsewhere, literally, e.g., Matthew 24:6; Revelation 11:7 . See BATTLE.