μάχομαι G3164

Home gloss

fight

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

strove / quarreled / quarreled

Note

John 6:52; 2 Tim 2:24 "a slave of the Lord must not fight." One root with μάχη "fight" (95, to be declared)

Rulings

2, 95

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Occurrences (2)

26:20 And the shepherds of Gerar fought with the shepherds of Isaac, claiming the water to be theirs; and he called the name of that well Injustice, for they wronged him.
26:22 Now, having set out from there, he dug a different well, and they did not fight over it; and he named its name Broad Room, saying, "Because now the Lord has broadened for us, and has grown us on the land."