3164 - machomai

Strong's Concordance

Original word: μάχομαι
Transliteration: machomai
Definition (short): argue
Definition (full): to fight

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: a prim. verb
Definition: to fight
NASB Translation: argue (1), fight (1), fighting together (1), quarrelsome (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute -- fight, strive.

References

Strong's 3164: 4 Occurrences
KJV: The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
NASB: Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, "How can this man give us His flesh to eat?"
KJV: And 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?
NASB: "On the following day he appeared to them as they were fighting together, and he tried to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men, you are brethren, why do you injure one another?'
KJV: And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
NASB: The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,
KJV: Ye 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.
NASB: You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.