strateuomai · serve as a soldier

What it means

strateuomai (στρατεύομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “serve as a soldier”.

Fight, wage war.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To serve in the army, to go to war.
2. Do battle, as in a conflict within.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• wage war ×3
• serves as a soldier ×1
• serving as a soldier ×1
• soldiers ×1
• you may fight ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• James×1
• 1 Peter×1

• Luke 3:14

  And soldiers also were asking him, saying, “And we, what should we do?” And he said to them, “Extort money from no one and do not accuse anyone falsely, and be content with your wages.”

• 1 Corinthians 9:7

  Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?

• 2 Corinthians 10:3

  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh;

• 1 Timothy 1:18

  This instruction I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in keeping with the prophecies made earlier about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

• 2 Timothy 2:4

  No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him.

• James 4:1

  From where come wars and from where fights among you? Is it not from here, from your pleasures that wage war in your members?

• 1 Peter 2:11

  Beloved, I urge you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from the fleshly desires which wage war against the soul.