G970: βία
bía · “force”
Definition
force
KJV translates it as: violence
Word origin: probably akin to G979 (βίος) (through the idea of vital activity);
Extended definition
[in LXX for פֶּרֶךְ, etc. ;]
strength, force, violence: Act.5:26 21:35 24:7 27:41.†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G970 is translated
- violence ×3
- force, ×1
Bible verses with G970 (bía)
Bía appears in 4 verses.
- Acts 5:26
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
- Acts 21:35
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
- Acts 24:7
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
- Acts 27:41
And 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.