What does στρατεία (strateía) mean in the Bible?
στρατεία (strateía): Spiritual struggle or conflict, used metaphorically for Christian warfare against evil forces or false doctrine
Greek · G4752
στρατεία
Warfare
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στρατεία G4752
Pronunciation strateía
What does στρατεία (strateía) mean in the Bible?
στρατεία (strateía): Spiritual struggle or conflict, used metaphorically for Christian warfare against evil forces or false doctrine
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G4752?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include fight (1), warfare (1).
Where does στρατεία (strateía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 2 Corinthians 10:4. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Timothy (1), 2 Corinthians (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It fight 1× 1 Timothy 1:18
warfare 1× 2 Corinthians 10:4
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row 2 Corinthians 10:4
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 2
2 Corinthians 1 1 Timothy 1
Source forms
στρατείαν 1x strateian 1 Timothy 1:18
στρατείας 1x strateias 2 Corinthians 10:4
Parsing patterns
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x 1 Timothy 1:18
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 1x 2 Corinthians 10:4
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Spiritual struggle or conflict, used metaphorically for Christian warfare against evil forces or false doctrine
Strong's G4752
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 2 forms 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
warfare
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
2 Corinthians 10:4 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
στρατείας strateiav
warfare, military service
Read verse 1 Timothy 1:18 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
στρατείαν, strateian
warfare, military service
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Accusative (1) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · Feminine 2 Cor 10:4 1×
Accusative · Singular · Feminine 1 Tim 1:18 1×
Word Origins
στρατεία is built from this root:
Part of These Phrases
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain