G970 βία

Strong's Greek Concordance · 4 KJV occurrences

βία

bía

Definition

force

KJV Renderings

violence

Derivation / Etymology

probably akin to G979 (βίος) (through the idea of vital activity);

KJV Verses (4)

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.