Strong’s G3164 · Greek
μάχομαι
máchomai · makh'-om-ahee
Origin middle voice of an apparently primary verb;
Meaning to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute
In the King James Version fight, strive.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- John 6:52The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
- Acts 7:26And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
- 2 Timothy 2:24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
- James 4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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.