Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.2. (v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance. 3. (v. t.) To carry on, or wage, as a conflict, or battle; to win or gain by struggle, as one's way; to sustain by fighting, as a cause. 4. (v. t.) To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate for three hours. 5. (v. t.) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship. 6. (n.) A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc. 7. (n.) A struggle or contest of any kind. 8. (v. i.) Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. 9. (n.) A screen for the combatants in ships. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia FIGHTGreek 3164. machomai -- to fight ... to fight. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: machomai Phonetic Spelling: (makh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I engage in battle, fight, strive Definition: ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3164.htm - 6k 2313. theomacheo -- to fight against God. 2341. theriomacheo -- to fight with wild beasts 2371. thumomacheo -- to fight desperately 3823. pale -- wrestling, generally fight 3163. mache -- a fight 73. agon -- a gathering, contest, struggle 4754. strateuo -- to make war, hence to serve as a soldier 75. agonizomai -- to contend for a prize, struggle 4171. polemos -- war Strong's Hebrew 3898a. lacham -- to fight, do battle... 3898, 3898a. lacham. 3898b . to fight, do battle. Transliteration: lacham Short Definition: fight. Word Origin a prim. root Definition ... /hebrew/3898a.htm - 5k 3898. lacham -- to fight, do battle 6633. tsaba -- to wage war, serve 4634. maarakah -- row, rank, battle line 6638. tsabah -- to swell, swell up 4421. milchamah -- a battle, war 2502. chalats -- to draw off or out, withdraw 6213. asah -- do, make 4264. machaneh -- an encampment, camp Library Fight of the Hebrews with the Canaanites Without the Consent Whether it is Lawful to Fight on Holy Days? Fighting the Good Fight of Faith The Fight with Wild Beasts at Ephesus The Fight for the Gospel; Or, Moravians and Rationalists, 1775 ... November the Twenty-Eighth How to Fight Evil May 22. "Fight the Good Fight of Faith" (I. Tim. vi. 12). The Jews Fight a Great Battle with Sabinus's Soldiers, and a Great ... How the Fight Begins. The Twelfth Chapter: Acquiring Patience in the Fight against ... Thesaurus Fight (265 Occurrences)... for three hours. 5. (vt) To cause to fight; to manage or maneuver in a fight; as, to fight cocks; to fight one's ship. 6. (n.) A ... /f/fight.htm - 38k Beast-fight Bene-ammon (44 Occurrences) Charioteers (19 Occurrences) Battles (8 Occurrences) Mustered (28 Occurrences) Valiant (66 Occurrences) Oldest (58 Occurrences) Ammonites (97 Occurrences) Babylonians (48 Occurrences) Bible Concordance Fight (265 Occurrences)Matthew 26:55 Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. Mark 14:48 "Have you come out," said Jesus, "with swords and cudgels to arrest me, as if you had to fight with a robber? Mark 15:7 And there was one named Barabbas, in prison with those who had gone against the government and in the fight had taken life. Luke 22:52 Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels? John 18:36 Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here." Acts 5:39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!" Acts 7:26 The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting, and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?' Acts 23:9 A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!" 1 Corinthians 9:26 I therefore run like that, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, 1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight? 2 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses. Philippians 1:30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me. Philippians 2:25 But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need; Colossians 2:1 For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh; 1 Timothy 1:18 This is the charge which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, in accordance with the inspired instructions concerning you which were given me long ago, that being equipped with them as your armour you may be continually fighting the good fight, 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. Hebrews 7:4 Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight. Hebrews 10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; Hebrews 11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Hebrews 12:4 Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin: James 4:2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. James 5:6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you. 2 Peter 2:19 And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight. Revelation 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. Revelation 9:9 And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight. Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war, Revelation 13:4 They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?" Genesis 14:13 And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram. Genesis 26:20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it. Genesis 26:21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah. Genesis 30:8 And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali. Genesis 32:28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome. Exodus 1:10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land." Exodus 14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still." Exodus 17:9 Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God's rod in my hand." Exodus 17:10 And Joshua did as Moses had said to him, to fight with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Exodus 21:18 If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed; Exodus 21:22 "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. Exodus 32:18 And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear. Leviticus 24:10 And a son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel and had a fight with a man of Israel by the tents; Numbers 21:33 Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei. Numbers 22:11 'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'" Numbers 31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses: Numbers 31:27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people: Numbers 32:27 But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says. Numbers 32:29 And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage: Deuteronomy 1:30 Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, Deuteronomy 1:41 Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us." You girded on every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill country. Deuteronomy 1:42 Yahweh said to me, "Tell them,'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'" Deuteronomy 2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. Deuteronomy 3:3 So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight. Deuteronomy 3:22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you." Deuteronomy 17:8 If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God; Deuteronomy 20:3 Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you; Deuteronomy 20:4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." Deuteronomy 20:5 And let the overseers say to the people, If there is any man who has made for himself a new house and has not gone into it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not take his house for himself. Deuteronomy 20:6 Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit. Deuteronomy 20:7 Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her. Deuteronomy 20:10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. Deuteronomy 20:19 When thou layest siege unto a city many days, to fight against it, to capture it, thou dost not destroy its trees to force an axe against them, for of them thou dost eat, and them thou dost not cut down -- for man's 'is' the tree of the field -- to go in at thy presence in the siege. Deuteronomy 25:11 If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts; Deuteronomy 29:7 When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them: Joshua 4:13 About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho. Joshua 9:2 that they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. Joshua 10:5 And five kings of the Amorite (the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon) are gathered together, and go up, they and all their camps, and encamp against Gibeon, and fight against it. Joshua 10:25 Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight." Joshua 10:34 And Joshua passeth over, and all Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and they encamp against it, and fight against it, Joshua 10:36 And Joshua goeth up, and all Israel with him, from Eglon to Hebron, and they fight against it, Joshua 11:5 All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel. Joshua 19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. Joshua 24:8 And I bring you in unto the land of the Amorite who is dwelling beyond the Jordan, and they fight with you, and I give them into your hand, and ye possess their land, and I destroy them out of your presence. Joshua 24:9 And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, riseth and fighteth against Israel, and sendeth and calleth for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you, Joshua 24:11 And ye pass over the Jordan, and come in unto Jericho, and fight against you do the possessors of Jericho -- the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite -- and I give them into your hand. Judges 1:1 It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?" Judges 1:3 Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him. Judges 1:5 and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and smite the Canaanite and the Perizzite. Judges 1:8 And the sons of Judah fight against Jerusalem, and capture it, and smite it by the mouth of the sword, and the city they have sent into fire; Judges 1:9 Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, and in the South, and in the lowland. Judges 2:15 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed. Judges 5:19 The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money. Judges 8:1 The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply. Judges 8:13 Then Gideon, the son of Joash, went back from the fight: Judges 9:38 Then Zebul said to him, "Now where is your mouth, that you said,'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Isn't this the people that you have despised? Go out now, please, and fight with them." Judges 10:9 The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed. Judges 10:18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." Judges 11:4 And it cometh to pass, after a time, that the Bene-Ammon fight with Israel, Judges 11:6 and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon." Judges 11:8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." Judges 11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?" Judges 11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?" Judges 11:20 and Sihon hath not trusted Israel to pass over through his border, and Sihon gathereth all his people, and they encamp in Jahaz, and fight with Israel; Judges 11:25 Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them? Judges 11:27 So I have done no wrong against you, but you are doing wrong to me in fighting against me: may the Lord, who is Judge this day, be judge between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon. Judges 11:32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand. Judges 12:1 The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!" Judges 12:3 When I saw that you didn't save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?" Judges 15:10 The men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us." Judges 18:23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?" Judges 20:14 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. Subtopics Fight of Faith: General Scriptures Concerning Related Terms Links Bible Concordance • Bible Dictionary • Bible Encyclopedia • Topical Bible • Bible Thesuarus |
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