Strong G3164μάχομαι
to quarrel
- Transliteration
- machomai
- Pronunciation
- makh'-om-ahee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war that is (figuratively) to quarrel dispute: - fight strive.
Detailed definition
μάχομαι
[in LXX chiefly for רִיב, also for נָצָה ni., etc.;]
1. to fight: Act.7:26.
2. to quarrel, dispute: 2Ti.2:24, Jas.4:2; πρὸς ἀλλήλους, Jhn.6:52 (cf. δια-μάχομαι).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for רִיב, also for נָצָה ni., etc.;]
1. to fight: Act.7:26.
2. to quarrel, dispute: 2Ti.2:24, Jas.4:2; πρὸς ἀλλήλους, Jhn.6:52 (cf. δια-μάχομαι).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3164 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- strove2
- fight1
- strive1
First verses
- 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.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
μάχομαι [ᾰ],
Ionic dialect present optative μαχέοιτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.272, μαχέοιντο [prev. work] 344 (variant{μαχέονται}))]; participle μαχεόμενος variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104 (elsewhere μαχόμενος, 9.75, +others))]; Epic dialect μαχειόμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.471, μαχεούμενος 11.403, 24.113)]: Epic dialect imperfect μαχέσκετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.140)]: future μαχήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (23.621, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.209)]; μαχέσομαι, δια-μαχεσόμεθα (as variant) [Refs ([prev. author] 9.48)]; also in late Prose, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.8.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.215f; μαχοῦμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 837, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1076, etc., μαχεῖται even in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.26, but μαχέονται 2.366; _Epic dialect_ μαχέσσομαι variant for{μαχήσομαι} 1.298)]: aorist ἐμαχεσάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.18, etc.; _optative_ μαχέσαιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.329)]; infinitive μαχέσασθαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (17.178, also μαχέσσασθαι 15.633; _optative_ μαχεσσαίμεσθα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.74)]; participle μαχεσσαμένω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.304; later μαχήσασθαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.27.1, (ἀνα-) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.93)]: perfect μεμάχημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.43, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.54)]: late aorist ἐμαχέσθην [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.970f, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.4.9:)]future μαχεσθήσομαι only [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Scholia recentia 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 672)]:—fight, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.; ὑσμῖνι μ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.863; πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μ. [prev. work] 452, etc.)]; μάχην μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 5.5: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly of armies and persons fighting as parts of armies, but sometimes of single combat, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.91, 433, 7.51, 111, 279, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.31, 39)]; between men and beasts, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.633, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.15; between beasts, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.824)]:—Constr.: with dative person, fight with, i. e. against, one, ἀνδράσιν ἶφι μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.151, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1253, etc.)]; μ. ἀντία, ἐναντίον τινός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.88, 97; ἐπί τινι 5.124, etc.; πρός τινα 17.471, but πρὸς δαίμονα)] against heaven's will, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 98 (in _Attic dialect_ Prose, mostly with _dative_ or πρός, μ. τοῖς πολεμίοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.47; πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.116))]; μ. σὺν σοί,.. θεά, with thy help, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.390)]; μετὰ πρώτοισι μ. among the foremost, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.575)]; μετὰ Βοιωτῶν μ. with them, in their ranks,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (13.700; πρός τινας μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.53, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 179a)]; κατὰ σφέας γὰρ μαχέονται will fight by themselves, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.366 (but κατ᾽ ἕνα μ.)] fight in single combat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104))]; μ. πρό τινος before him: hence, metaphorically, for him, in his defence, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.156, 8.56, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33, etc.; ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 44; πάτρας ὕπερ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1002; Ἕλλησιν ὑπὲρ Ἑλλήνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 239b; περὶ δαιτί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.245)]; but later usually περί τινος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 740, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 163, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95; ἀμφί τινι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.70, 91; ἀμφὶ νέκυι 16.565; εἵνεκά τινος 2.377: with _dative_ instrum., τόξοισι, πελέκεσσι μ., 7.140, 15.711 (χερσὶ μαχέσσασθαι)], of boxers, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.39))]; μ. ἀπ᾽ ἵππου fight from horseback, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.63)]; τὸ μήπω μεμαχημένον the force that had not yet come into action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.43.)]
2 with accusative, fight against, only falsa lectio in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.23.)]
II generally, quarrel, wrangle, ἔριδι μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.8; μ. ἐπέεσσιν [prev. work] 304, etc.)]; τινι [Refs (5.875, 13.118)]; τῷ παιδὶ μ. make a scene with.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 23.8)]; dispute, argue, περί τι μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 342d, etc.)]
III contend for the mastery in games, etc., πὺξ μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.621)]; measure oneself with or against, τινι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.272; παγκράτιον μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1190, 1195; μ. Ὀλυμπιάδα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 21.)]
IV after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], struggle against a force, ἀνάγκᾳ δ᾽ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μ. [Refs 7th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 5.21; ὄμβρῳ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 26.4; πρὸς ἡνίας μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1010; πρὸς ἐπιθυμίας ἢ ἡδονάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 191e)]; μ. τῷ λιμῷ, τῷ δίψει, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.5.)]
V with infinitive, struggle, make an effort to do, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 552a23.)]
VI of arguments, propositions, etc., to be in contradiction or inconsistent, τρία ὁμολογήματα μ. αὐτὰ αὑτοῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 155b, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.28.4; μαχόμενα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.95 K., 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.198, +others)]
Ionic dialect present optative μαχέοιτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.272, μαχέοιντο [prev. work] 344 (variant{μαχέονται}))]; participle μαχεόμενος variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104 (elsewhere μαχόμενος, 9.75, +others))]; Epic dialect μαχειόμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.471, μαχεούμενος 11.403, 24.113)]: Epic dialect imperfect μαχέσκετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.140)]: future μαχήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (23.621, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.209)]; μαχέσομαι, δια-μαχεσόμεθα (as variant) [Refs ([prev. author] 9.48)]; also in late Prose, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 11.8.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.215f; μαχοῦμαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 837, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1076, etc., μαχεῖται even in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.26, but μαχέονται 2.366; _Epic dialect_ μαχέσσομαι variant for{μαχήσομαι} 1.298)]: aorist ἐμαχεσάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.18, etc.; _optative_ μαχέσαιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.329)]; infinitive μαχέσασθαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (17.178, also μαχέσσασθαι 15.633; _optative_ μαχεσσαίμεσθα 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.74)]; participle μαχεσσαμένω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.304; later μαχήσασθαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.27.1, (ἀνα-) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.93)]: perfect μεμάχημαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.43, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 7.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.54)]: late aorist ἐμαχέσθην [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.970f, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.4.9:)]future μαχεσθήσομαι only [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Scholia recentia 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 672)]:—fight, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.; ὑσμῖνι μ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.863; πολεμίζειν ἠδὲ μ. [prev. work] 452, etc.)]; μάχην μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 5.5: in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly of armies and persons fighting as parts of armies, but sometimes of single combat, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.91, 433, 7.51, 111, 279, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.31, 39)]; between men and beasts, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.633, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.15; between beasts, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.824)]:—Constr.: with dative person, fight with, i. e. against, one, ἀνδράσιν ἶφι μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.151, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1253, etc.)]; μ. ἀντία, ἐναντίον τινός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.88, 97; ἐπί τινι 5.124, etc.; πρός τινα 17.471, but πρὸς δαίμονα)] against heaven's will, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 98 (in _Attic dialect_ Prose, mostly with _dative_ or πρός, μ. τοῖς πολεμίοις 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.47; πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.116))]; μ. σὺν σοί,.. θεά, with thy help, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.390)]; μετὰ πρώτοισι μ. among the foremost, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.575)]; μετὰ Βοιωτῶν μ. with them, in their ranks,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (13.700; πρός τινας μετ᾽ ἀλλήλων 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.53, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 179a)]; κατὰ σφέας γὰρ μαχέονται will fight by themselves, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.366 (but κατ᾽ ἕνα μ.)] fight in single combat, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.104))]; μ. πρό τινος before him: hence, metaphorically, for him, in his defence, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.156, 8.56, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.33, etc.; ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 44; πάτρας ὕπερ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1002; Ἕλλησιν ὑπὲρ Ἑλλήνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 239b; περὶ δαιτί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.245)]; but later usually περί τινος, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 740, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 163, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.95; ἀμφί τινι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.70, 91; ἀμφὶ νέκυι 16.565; εἵνεκά τινος 2.377: with _dative_ instrum., τόξοισι, πελέκεσσι μ., 7.140, 15.711 (χερσὶ μαχέσσασθαι)], of boxers, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.39))]; μ. ἀπ᾽ ἵππου fight from horseback, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.63)]; τὸ μήπω μεμαχημένον the force that had not yet come into action, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.43.)]
2 with accusative, fight against, only falsa lectio in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.23.)]
II generally, quarrel, wrangle, ἔριδι μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.8; μ. ἐπέεσσιν [prev. work] 304, etc.)]; τινι [Refs (5.875, 13.118)]; τῷ παιδὶ μ. make a scene with.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 23.8)]; dispute, argue, περί τι μ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 342d, etc.)]
III contend for the mastery in games, etc., πὺξ μ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.621)]; measure oneself with or against, τινι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.272; παγκράτιον μ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1190, 1195; μ. Ὀλυμπιάδα 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 21.)]
IV after [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], struggle against a force, ἀνάγκᾳ δ᾽ οὐδὲ θεοὶ μ. [Refs 7th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 5.21; ὄμβρῳ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 26.4; πρὸς ἡνίας μ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1010; πρὸς ἐπιθυμίας ἢ ἡδονάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 191e)]; μ. τῷ λιμῷ, τῷ δίψει, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.5.)]
V with infinitive, struggle, make an effort to do, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 552a23.)]
VI of arguments, propositions, etc., to be in contradiction or inconsistent, τρία ὁμολογήματα μ. αὐτὰ αὑτοῖς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 155b, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.28.4; μαχόμενα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.95 K., 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.198, +others)]