noun · feminine
machas
Strong’sG3163
strife, contention, quarrel
stem mach-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μάχη, -ης, ἡ
(< μάχομαι), [in LXX chiefly for רִיב;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3163 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmakh'-ay
a battle, i.e. (figuratively) controversy
Fromfrom G3164;
King Jamesfighting, strive, striving.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(μάχομαι) battle, combat, frequently in Refs 8th c.BC+; sometimes of single combat, Refs; μ. καὶ δηϊοτήςRefs 5th c.BC+ fight a battle, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀντιάζειν τινὶ μάχανRefs 5th c.BC+; μ. συμβάλλειν τινί engage battle with.., Refs 5th c.BC+; διὰ μάχης τινὶ ἀπικέσθαι, ἔρχεσθαι, ἥκειν, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς μάχην πρός τινα ἐλθεῖν, μολεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+; μάχῃ κρατῆσαι conquer in battle, Refs 5th c.BC+; μάχη τινός battle with an enemy, Αἴαντος δ᾽ ἀλέεινε μ. Refs 8th c.BC+: plural, strifes, ἔρις τε.. πόλεμοί τε μάχαι τε Refs 8th c.BC+: generally, contention, strife, Refs 2nd c.AD+; μ. νομικαί NT
2 ={ἀγών}, contest, as for a prize in the games, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 struggle, μηχανή τε πολλὴ καὶ μ. ἦν περί τινος Refs 5th c.BC+
II mode of fighting, way of battle, ἡ μ. σφέων ἦν ἀπ᾽ ἵππων Refs 5th c.BC+
III field of battle, interpolated in Refs
IV in Logic, contradiction, inconsistency, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | machas | machais2×μάχαι |
| object accusative | machan | machain2×μάχας |
| direct address vocative | machar | machair |
| of, belonging to genitive | machau | machaiu |
| to, for dative | macha | machai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
macha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
machais“fights”subjectnominative plural2×
2 Corinthians 7:5… nu, alla en pante thliborōntois exōthen machais, esōthen fobois… we were pressed from every direction — conflicts on the outside, fears within.
James 4:1“fights”Pothen polemois kai pothen machais en vi? ouk enteuthen, ek taiu …What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at …
machain“quarrels”objectaccusative plural2×
2 Timothy 2:23“quarrels”… apaideutain zētēsiain paraitosōr, horarēntos hoti gennalō machain;… foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds …
Titus 3:9… zētēsiain kai genealogiain kai eridain kai machain nomikain peristēosōr, alō gar anōfelais kai …… avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things …