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Lexicon :: Strong's G3164 - machomai

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μάχομαι
Transliteration
machomai (Key)
Pronunciation
makh'-om-ahee
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Middle voice of an apparently root word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:527,573

Strong’s Definitions

μάχομαι máchomai, makh'-om-ahee; middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute:—fight, strive.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G3164 in the following manner: strive (3x), fight (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G3164 in the following manner: strive (3x), fight (1x).

  1. to fight

    1. of armed combatants, or those who engage in a hand to hand struggle

    2. of those who engage in a war of words, to quarrel, wrangle, dispute

    3. of those who contend at law for property and privileges

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μάχομαι máchomai, makh'-om-ahee; middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute:—fight, strive.
STRONGS G3164:
μάχομαι; imperfect 3 person plural Ἐμάχοντο; (allied with μάχαιρα; Curtius, § 459; Vanicek, p. 687; from Homer down); to fight: properly, of armed combatants, or those who engage in a hand-to-hand struggle, Acts 7:26; tropically, of those who engage in a war of words, to quarrel, wrangle, dispute: 2 Timothy 2:24; πρός ἀλλήλους, John 6:52 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 31, 5; Buttmann, § 133, 8); of those who contend at law for property and privileges, James 4:2. (Compare: διαμάχομαι. Synonym: see πόλεμος, b.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
6:52
Acts
7:26
2 Timothy
2:24
James
4:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3164 matches the Greek μάχομαι (machomai),
which occurs 19 times in 19 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - And the shepherds of Gerara strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well, Injury, for they injured him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - And Jacob was angry, and strove with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my injustice, and what my sin, that thou hast pursued after me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:22 - And if two men strive and smite a woman with child, and her child be born imperfectly formed, he shall be forced to pay a penalty: as the woman's husband may lay upon him, he shall pay with a valuation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:10 - And there went forth a son of an Israelitish woman, and he was son of an Egyptian man among the sons of Israel; and they fought in the camp, the son of the Israelitish woman, and a man who was an Israelite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:18 - And the children of Israel fought not with them, because all the princes sware to them by the Lord God of Israel; and all the congregation murmured at the princes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - And now art thou any better than Balac son of Sepphor, king of Moab? Did he indeed fight with Israel, or indeed make war with him,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - And moreover thy handmaid had two sons, and they fought [fn]together in the field, and there was no one to part them; and the one smote the other his brother, and slew him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - And they said, This is the blood of the sword; and the kings have fought, and each man has smitten his neighbour; now then to the spoils, Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against him: and the children of Ammon gave him even annually a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. These the king of the children of Ammon brought to him annually in the first and second and third years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - And my heart took counsel within me, and I contended against the nobles, and the princes, and I said to them, Should every man demand of his brother what ye demand? And I appointed against them a great assembly,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11 - And I strove with the commanders, and said, Wherefore has the house of God been abandoned? and I assembled them, and set them in their place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:17 - And I strove with the free children of Juda, and said to them, What is this evil thing which ye do, and profane the sabbath-day?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:25 - And I strove with them and cursed them; and I smote some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying,Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take of their daughters to your sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6 - Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother's sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:8 - Fighting and reproaching he will dismiss them; didst thou not meditate with a harsh spirit, to slay them with a wrathful spirit?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - (LXX 40:5) to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill it with the corpses of men, whom I smote in mine anger and my wrath, and turned away my face from them, for all their wickedness:
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