Bia βία

Bia (Greek βία, Strong's G970) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “force”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Bia, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Acts

• 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.At that point, the captain went with the officers and brought the apostles—but not by force, for fear the people would stone them.
• 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.When Paul reached the steps, he had to be carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob.
• Acts 24:7
  But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,(not included in this translation)
• 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.But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).