Bible word study

Strateuomai (Strong’s G4754): Meaning in the Bible

Strateuomai (στρατεύομαι) is the Greek word numbered G4754 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to serve in a military campaign; figuratively, to execute the apostolate (with its arduous duties and functions), to contend with carnal inclinations. In the King James Bible it is translated soldier, (go to) war(-fare)..

• Original wordστρατεύομαι
• Transliterationstrateúomai
• Pronunciationstrat-yoo'-om-ahee
• Strong’s numberG4754
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. middle voice from the base of G4756;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Strateuomai appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Strateuomai (G4754) stands behind 9 English renderings in 7 verses across 7 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in 2 Corinthians (2), 1 Timothy (2), Luke (1).

How the King James Bible renders Strateuomai, by count

• war4 of 9 (44 percent)
• do1 of 9 (11 percent)
• soldiers1 of 9 (11 percent)
• thou1 of 9 (11 percent)
• warfare1 of 9 (11 percent)
• warreth1 of 9 (11 percent)

Three places to read Strateuomai

• Luke 3:14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
• 2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
• 2 Timothy 2:4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Strateuomai in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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