Strong’s G970 · Greek
βία
bía · bee'-ah
Origin probably akin to βίος (G979) (through the idea of vital activity);
Meaning force
In the King James Version violence.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 5:26Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
- Acts 21:35And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
- Acts 24:7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
- Acts 27:41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.