Strong's Greek · G3164

μάχομαι

máchomai

fight, strive

Definition

to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute

Derivation

middle voice of an apparently primary verb;

Appears 4 times in Scripture

2 Timothy 2:24

And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.

James 4:2

You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

John 6:52

At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

Acts 7:26

The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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