2 Corinthians 10:4
New Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)"
Word-by-Word Analysis
כְּלִי
kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
πόλεμος
pólemos
warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series)
מִשְׁכָּב
mishkâb
a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse
גִּבּוֹר
gibbôwr
powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
עָבַר
ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in ...
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
ἁρπάζω
harpázō
to seize (in various applications)
חָזָק
châzâq
strong (usu. in a bad sense, hard, bold, violent)
מִבְצָר
mibtsâr
a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender
Key Terms in This Verse
πόλεμος pólemos
warfare (literally or figuratively; a single encounter or a series)
Study G4171 →מִשְׁכָּב mishkâb
a bed (figuratively, a bier); abstractly, sleep; by euphemism, carnal intercourse
Study H4904 →כְּלִי kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Study H3627 →מִבְצָר mibtsâr
a fortification, castle, or fortified city; figuratively, a defender
Study H4013 →עָבַר ʻâbar
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Study H5674 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go...
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down f...
And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
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