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στρατεύῃ ... τὴν καλὴν στρατείαν

To battle · warfare

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στρατεύομαι G4754 to battle
Pronunciation strateúomai
To serve as a soldier or engage in spiritual warfare; emphasizes active military service under command.
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στρατεία G4752 warfare
Pronunciation strateía
Spiritual struggle or conflict, used metaphorically for Christian warfare against evil forces or false doctrine
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What does στρατεύῃ ... τὴν καλὴν στρατείαν (strateuē ... tēn kalēn strateian) mean in the Bible?

στρατεύομαι · στρατεία is a Greek word meaning "to wage warfare; campaign or battle".

Full entry for στρατεύῃ ... τὴν καλὴν στρατείαν (G4754, G4752) · Browse the biblical lexicon

Meaning

to wage warfare; campaign or battle
Grammatical Forms

How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.

Tenses
Present
Voices
Middle
Participle verbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality 3×
Present Middle Luke 3:14 · 2 Tim 2:4 · Jas 4:1 3×
Indicative states a fact or reality 3×
Present Middle 1 Cor 9:7 · 2 Cor 10:3 · 1 Pet 2:11 3×
Subjunctive possibility, probability, or purpose 1×
Present Middle 1 Tim 1:18 1×
7 total occurrences across all forms in the biblical text Morphology: MorphGNT SBLGNT — CC BY-SA 3.0
Discourse Aspect

How this verb appears across 7 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).

Aspect
ongoing 3 subjunctive 1 participle 3
Tense
present 7
Voice
middle 7
Mood
indicative 3 participle 3 subjunctive 1
NT Occurrences
Luke 3:14 στρατευόμενοι present middle participle participle 1 Corinthians 9:7 στρατεύεται present middle indicative ongoing 2 Corinthians 10:3 στρατευόμεθα present middle indicative ongoing 1 Timothy 1:18 στρατεύῃ present middle subjunctive subjunctive 2 Timothy 2:4 στρατευόμενος present middle participle participle James 4:1 στρατευομένων present middle participle participle 1 Peter 2:11 στρατεύονται present middle indicative ongoing

Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.

Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)

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

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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