μάχομαι

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G3164

Transliteration: máchomai

Pronunciation: makh'-om-ahee

Definition: fight

- Original: μάχομαι

- Transliteration: Machomai

- Phonetic: makh'-om-ahee

- Definition:

1. to fight

a. of armed combatants, or those who engage in a hand to hand struggle

b. of those who engage in a war of words, to quarrel, wrangle, dispute

c. of those who contend at law for property and privileges

- Origin: middle voice of an apparently root word

- TDNT entry: 12:47,6

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: Middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war that is (figuratively) to quarrel dispute: - fight strive.