Strong's Concordance
Original word: βία
Transliteration: bia
Definition (short): violence
Definition (full): strength, force
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. word
Definition: strength, force
NASB Translation: force (1), violence (3).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries.
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References
KJV:
Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.
NASB:
Then the captain went along with the officers and proceeded to bring them back without violence (for they were afraid of the people, that they might be stoned).
KJV:
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
NASB:
When he got to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the mob;
KJV:
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
NASB:
"But Lysias the commander came along, and with much violence took him out of our hands,
KJV:
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.
NASB:
But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the force of the waves.