μάχομαι
machomai
“to quarrel”
Definition
to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute
middle voice of an apparently primary verb;
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Grammar & Morphology
Verb
G:V
Greek Verb
Occurrences
μάχομαι appears 4 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.
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?’
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?”
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