Machē μάχη

Machē (Greek μάχη, Strong's G3163) is a Greek feminine noun meaning “quarrel”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Conflict

Verses

Every verse with Machē, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 7:5
  For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

2 Timothy

• 2 Timothy 2:23
  But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.

Titus

• Titus 3:9
  But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

James

• James 4:1
  From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).