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
“And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.”
“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.”
“At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?””
“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).