Strong's Greek · G970
βία
bía
Definitionforce
Derivationprobably akin to G979 (βίος) (through the idea of vital activity);
KJV usageviolence
Occurrences4 in the KJV · 4 verses
βία in Scripture
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.