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Strong's Lookups — Raw Data

G5331 pharmakeia — 3 occurrences: sorceries (2x), witchcraft (1x)

  • Gal 5:20; Rev 9:21; Rev 18:23
  • OT background: Isa 47:9,12 (Babylon's sorceries and enchantments)

G1831 exerchomai — 193 occurrences, 97 translations

  • Rev 18:4 uses Aorist Active Imperative (Exelthate) — urgent decisive command
  • Also in 2 Cor 6:17 (quoting Isa 52:11); Acts 7:3 (God to Abraham)
  • Revelation uses: 6:2; 14:15,17,18,20; 15:6; 16:17; 18:4; 19:5,21; 20:8

G3458 mylos — 4 occurrences

  • Mat 18:6; Mrk 9:42; Rev 18:21; Rev 18:22
  • All involve judgment/destruction imagery

G4172 polis — 155 occurrences, "city" (112x)

  • Rev uses: 3:12; 16:19; 20:9; 21:2,14; 22:14,19
  • "Great city" formula in Rev 11:8; 14:8; 16:19; 17:18; 18:10,16,18,19,21

G1117 gomos — 3 occurrences

  • Acts 21:3 (ship's burden); Rev 18:11,12 (merchandise/cargo)
  • Commercial-maritime vocabulary

G2372 thymos — 18 NT occurrences, 10 in Revelation

  • Passionate fury — both Babylon's (14:8; 18:3) and God's (14:10,19; 15:1,7; 16:1,19; 19:15)

G5590 psyche — 105 occurrences

  • Rev 18:13: "souls of men" — in the merchandise list
  • Compare Ezek 27:13: Tyre "traded the persons (naphshoth = souls) of men"

G4983 soma — 146 occurrences

  • Rev 18:13: only Revelation occurrence; "bodies" = slave-bodies as merchandise

G2919 krino — in Rev 18:20

  • ekrinen (Aorist): God JUDGED your judgment — completed action
  • krima (G2917): the verdict/sentence

G3759 ouai — woe/alas

  • Threefold refrain in Rev 18:10,16,19: "Ouai ouai, hē polis hē megalē"