# μάχομαι (machomai)

Strong’s G3164. 4 New Testament occurrences.

I engage in battle, fight; hence: I strive, contend, dispute.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/machomai-g3164

## Occurrences

- [John 6:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/6/52) — The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
- [Acts 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/7/26) — 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 anothe…
- [2 Timothy 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-timothy/2/24) — And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
- [James 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/4/2) — 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.