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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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 Box Gen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - And the herdsmen of Gerar contended with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well [fn]Esek, because they quarreled with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - Then he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not contend over it; so he named it [fn]Rehoboth, and he said, “[fn]At last Yahweh has made [fn]room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 -

Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

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“And if men struggle with each other and [fn]strike a woman with child so that [fn]she gives birth prematurely, yet there is no injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband [fn]will set for him, and he shall pay [fn]as the judges decide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:10 -

Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 -

“If two men, a man and his brother, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:18 - But the sons of Israel did not strike them down because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:25 - ‘So now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive with Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - “And your servant-woman had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to deliver between them, so one struck the other and put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - Then they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and they have struck down one another. So now, Moab, to the spoil!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed over them. So the sons of Ammon gave him during that year [fn]100 talents of silver, [fn]10,000 kors of wheat, and 10,000 of barley. The sons of Ammon also brought back to him this amount in the second and in the third year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:7 - I consulted within my own heart and contended with the nobles and the officials and said to them, “You are exacting usury, each from his brother!” Therefore, I held a great assembly against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:11 - So I contended against the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” Then I gathered them together and had them stand in their posts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:17 - Then I contended with the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, even profaning the sabbath day?

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:25 - So I contended with them and cursed them and struck some of them and pulled out their hair and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take up their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:6 -

“Do not look at me because I am [fn]swarthy,

For the sun has burned me.

My mother’s sons were angry with me;

They made me caretaker of the vineyards,

But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:8 -

You contended with them [fn]by driving them away, by making them forlorn.

With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 -

The bed is too short on which to stretch out,

And the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have struck down in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their evil:
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