G3164

μάχομαι

machomai

Verb · Middle voice of an apparently root word

Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute:—fight, strive.

Outline

to fight

of armed combatants, or those who engage in a hand to hand struggle
of those who engage in a war of words, to quarrel, wrangle, dispute
of those who contend at law for property and privileges

Usages

John 6:52

The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

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Acts 7:26

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

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2 Timothy 2:24

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

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James 4:2

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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