Strong’s G3163 · Greek
μάχη
máchē · makh'-ay
Origin from μάχομαι (G3164);
Meaning a battle, i.e. (figuratively) controversy
In the King James Version fighting, strive, striving.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- 2 Corinthians 7:5For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
- 2 Timothy 2:23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
- Titus 3:9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
- James 4:1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.