Milchamah מִלְחָמָה

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Milchamah
מִלְחָמָה
Transliterationmilchamah
Strong's numberH4421
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechfeminine noun
Glossbattle
Occurrences320 in 309 verses
Most frequent in1 Chronicles (31)

Milchamah (Hebrew מִלְחָמָה, Strong's H4421) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “battle”. It occurs 320 times in 309 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

battle, war

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVwar (150), battle (145), wars (8), battles (6), fight (5), fighting (1)
BSBbattle (116), war (91), into battle (13), fight (11), army (5), warriors (4), wars (3), soldiers (3), formation (3), fighting (2), warfare (2), our battles (2), and 32 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Milchamah occurs in 309 verses, listed here by reference.

Genesis (2): 14:2, 14:8

Exodus (5): 1:10, 13:17, 15:3, 17:16, 32:17

Numbers (12): 10:9, 21:14, 21:33, 31:14, 31:21, 31:27, 31:28, 31:49, 32:6, 32:20, 32:27, 32:29

Deuteronomy (18): 1:41, 2:9, 2:14, 2:16, 2:24, 2:32, 3:1, 4:34, 20:1, 20:2, 20:3, 20:5, 20:6, 20:7, 20:12, 20:20, 21:10, 29:7

Joshua (18): 4:13, 5:4, 5:6, 6:3, 8:1, 8:3, 8:11, 8:14, 10:7, 10:24, 11:7, 11:18, 11:19, 11:20, 11:23, 14:11, 14:15, 17:1

Judges (18): 3:1, 3:2, 3:10, 8:13, 18:11, 18:16, 18:17, 20:14, 20:17, 20:18, 20:20, 20:22, 20:23, 20:28, 20:34, 20:39, 20:42, 21:22

1 Samuel (30): 4:1, 4:2, 7:10, 8:12, 8:20, 13:15, 13:22, 14:20, 14:22, 14:23, 14:52, 16:18, 17:1, 17:2, 17:8, 17:13, 17:20, 17:28, 17:33, 17:47, 18:5, 18:17, 19:8, 23:8, 25:28, 26:10, 29:4, 29:9, 30:24, 31:3

2 Samuel (29): 1:4, 1:25, 1:27, 2:17, 3:1, 3:6, 3:30, 8:10, 10:8, 10:9, 10:13, 11:7, 11:15, 11:18, 11:19, 11:25, 17:8, 18:6, 18:8, 19:3, 19:10, 21:15, 21:17, 21:18, 21:19, 21:20, 22:35, 22:40, 23:9

1 Kings (21): 2:5, 5:3, 8:44, 9:22, 12:21, 14:30, 15:6, 15:7, 15:16, 15:32, 20:14, 20:18, 20:26, 20:29, 20:39, 22:1, 22:4, 22:6, 22:15, 22:30, 22:35

2 Kings (10): 3:7, 3:26, 8:28, 13:25, 14:7, 16:5, 18:20, 24:16, 25:4, 25:19

1 Chronicles (31): 5:10, 5:18, 5:19, 5:20, 5:22, 7:4, 7:11, 7:40, 10:3, 11:13, 12:1, 12:8, 12:19, 12:33, 12:35, 12:36, 12:37, 12:38, 14:15, 18:10, 19:7, 19:9, 19:10, 19:14, 19:17, 20:4, 20:5, 20:6, 22:8, 26:27, 28:3

2 Chronicles (29): 6:34, 8:9, 11:1, 12:15, 13:2, 13:3, 13:14, 14:6, 14:10, 15:19, 16:9, 17:13, 18:3, 18:5, 18:14, 18:29, 18:34, 20:1, 20:15, 22:5, 25:8, 25:13, 26:11, 26:13, 27:7, 32:2, 32:6, 32:8, 35:21

Job (4): 5:20, 38:23, 39:25, 41:8

Psalms (10): 18:34, 18:39, 24:8, 27:3, 46:9, 76:3, 89:43, 120:7, 140:2, 144:1

Proverbs (3): 20:18, 21:31, 24:6

Ecclesiastes (3): 3:8, 8:8, 9:11

Song of Solomon (1): 3:8

Isaiah (14): 2:4, 3:2, 3:25, 7:1, 13:4, 21:15, 22:2, 27:4, 28:6, 30:32, 36:5, 41:12, 42:13, 42:25

Jeremiah (24): 4:19, 6:4, 6:23, 8:6, 18:21, 21:4, 28:8, 38:4, 39:4, 41:3, 41:16, 42:14, 46:3, 48:14, 49:2, 49:14, 49:26, 50:22, 50:30, 50:42, 51:20, 51:32, 52:7, 52:25

Ezekiel (7): 7:14, 13:5, 17:17, 27:10, 27:27, 32:27, 39:20

Daniel (3): 9:26, 11:20, 11:25

Hosea (4): 1:7, 2:18, 10:9, 10:14

Joel (3): 2:5, 2:7, 3:9

Amos (1): 1:14

Obadiah (1): 1:1

Micah (3): 2:8, 3:5, 4:3

Zechariah (5): 9:10, 10:3, 10:4, 10:5, 14:2

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).
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