Greek verb · G3164
μάχομαι
machomaimakh'-om-ahee
to fight; to quarrel, dispute
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: máchomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3164is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3164
to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute
The King James renders it: fight, strive.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
machomai is rendered "to fight; to quarrel, dispute". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to fight".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 6:52At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
John 6:52Ἐμάχοντο
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in John.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to fight, and to quarrel, dispute.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to fightAct.7:26. | Tagged as
| WhereActs 7:26The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them… |
| to quarrel, dispute2Ti.2:24 | Tagged as
| WhereJohn 6:52At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Ἐμάχοντο1
- μάχεσθαι1
- μάχεσθε1
- μαχομένοις1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-INI-3P
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-PNI-2P
- verb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PNN
- verb · present middle or passive form, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-PNP-DPM
John
one use
At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
- Ἐμάχοντοemachontoverb · imperfect middle or passive form, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: Were arguing
Acts
one use
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?’
- μαχομένοιςmachomenoisverb · present middle or passive form, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: were quarreling
2 Timothy
one use
And a servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.
- μάχεσθαιmachesthaiverb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to quarrel
James
one use
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.
- μάχεσθεmachestheverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: You quarrel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.