στρατεία, στρατείας, ἡ (στρατεύω), an expedition, campaign; military service, warfare: Paul likens his contest with the difficulties that oppose him in the discharge of his apostolic duties to a warfare, 2Co_10:4 (where Tdf. στρατιᾶς, see his note); 1Ti_1:18. ((Herodotus, Xenophon, others.))

στρατεία strateia 2x a military expedition, campaign; and genr. military service, warfare; met. the Christian warfare, 2Co_10:4 ; fight, 1Ti_1:18

στρατεία (on the orthogr., v. Deiss., BS , 181 f .), -ας , ἡ ( < οτρατεύω ), [in LXX chiefly for H6635 ;] an expedition, a campaign, warfare: metaph ., 2Co_10:4 (-τιά , T ), 1Ti_1:18 .†

στρατεία [page 592] (for the spelling, see Deissmann BS p. 181 f.) military service : P Fay 91 .11 (A.D. 99) Λυκίωι Βελλήνῳ Γεμέλλωι ἀπολυσ [ί ]μωι ἀπὸ στρατείας , to Lucius Bellenus Gemellus discharged from military service, BGU I. 140 .11 (time of Hadrian) ο [ὓ ]ς οἱ γονεῖς αὐτῶν τῷ τῆς στρατείας ἀνείλα [ν ]το χρόνῳ , Gnomon (= BGU V. 1) 34 ( c A.D. 150) τοῖς ἐν στρατείᾳ καὶ ἀπὸ στρατείας οὖσι σ̣υνκεχώρηται διατίθεσθα [ι ] καὶ κατὰ Ῥωμαϊκὰς καὶ Ἑλληνικὰς διαθήκας , and ib. 62, and BGU II. 625 .14 (beg. iii/A.D.), as read by Olsson Papyrusbriefe p. 114, ὔδατε (= οἴδατε ) τὴν ἀνάγκην τῆν στρατείας . In the inscr. Preisigke 293 .1 (Ptol.) ὁμοῦ τὴν τιμὴν τῆι θεῶν στρατείαι Ἄρηι σ̣υνμάχωι , Διὶ Ὀλυμπίωι κτλ ., στρατείαι would seem to have the meaning army like στρατιά ( q.v. ), and this meaning is also given by the editors to the word in P Oxy I. 71 ii. 8 (A.D. 303) τῶν τε ἡμετέρων τέκνων ἐν στρατείᾳ ὄντων καὶ ἀπασχολ [ο ]υμένεν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοδαπῆς , my sons are in the army and absent upon foreign service, but the translation on military service is equally possible. For the metaph. use of στρατεία , as in 2Co_10:4 , 1Ti_1:18 , 4Ma_9:28 , cf. Epict. iii. 24. 34 στρατεία τίς ἐστιν ὁ βίος ἑκάστου καὶ αὕτη μακρὰ καὶ ποικίλη , and Maxim. Tyr. xix. 4 στρατηγὸν μὲν τὸν θεόν , στρατείαν δὲ τὴν ζωήν , ὁπλίτην δὲ τὸν ἄνθρωπον .

στρατεία στρα^τεία, ionic -ηίη, ἡ, [Etym: στρατεύω] "an expedition, campaign", στρατηίην or -είαν ποιεῖσθαι Hdt. , Thuc. ; ἀπὸ στρατείας coming from "war", after "service done", Aesch. ; κατὰ τὴν Σιτάλκου στρατείαν about the time of his "expedition", Thuc. ; ἐπὶ στρατείας or ἐν στρατείᾳ εἶναι to be on "foreign service", Plat. , Xen. : pl. "military service, warfare", Plat. στρ. ἡ ἐν τοῖς μέρεσιν, "an expedition" for special service, to train the young soldiers next after serving as περίπολοι, Aeschin.

στρατεία (on the orthogr., see Deiss., BS, 181 f.), -ας, ἡ (οτρατεύω), [in LXX chiefly for צָבָא ;] an expedition, a campaign, warfare: metaphorically, 2Co.10:4 (-τιά, T), 1Ti.1:18.† (AS)