μάχομαι

The 4 distinct written forms G3164 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
μάχεσθαι máchesthai	Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive	2 Timothy 2:24	1
μάχεσθε máchesthe	Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural	James 4:2	1
μαχομένοις machoménois	Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine	Acts 7:26	1
Ἐμάχοντο Emáchonto	Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural	John 6:52	1

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3164, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derived from this word

• μαχη máchē G3163 fight

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• Ματθαιος Matthaîos G3156 Matthew

Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

The same Greek word μαχομαι appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 13 books.

21

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

20

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

13 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 26:20 μάχομαι
• Exodus 21:22 μάχομαι
• Leviticus 24:10 μάχομαι
• Deuteronomy 25:11 μάχομαι
• Joshua 9:18 μάχομαι
• Judges 11:25 μάχομαι
• 2 Samuel 14:6 μάχομαι
• 2 Kings 3:23 μάχομαι
• 2 Chronicles 27:5 μάχομαι
• Ezra 15:7 μάχομαι
• Song of Solomon 1:6 μάχομαι
• Isaiah 27:8 μάχομαι

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3164) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 26:20 μάχομαι The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
• Genesis 26:22 μάχομαι He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
• Genesis 31:36 μάχομαι Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
• Exodus 21:22 μάχομαι "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.
• Leviticus 24:10 μάχομαι The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
• Deuteronomy 25:11 μάχομαι When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
• Joshua 9:18 μάχομαι The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.
• Joshua 16:7 μαχω and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
• Judges 11:25 μάχομαι 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?
• 2 Samuel 14:6 μάχομαι Your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.
• 2 Kings 3:23 μάχομαι and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have struck each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
• 2 Chronicles 27:5 μάχομαι He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. The children of Ammon gave him the same year one hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third.
• Ezra 15:7 μάχομαι
• Ezra 23:11 μάχομαι
• Ezra 23:17 μάχομαι
• Ezra 23:25 μάχομαι
• Song of Solomon 1:6 μάχομαι Don't stare at me because I am dark, Because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
• Isaiah 27:8 μάχομαι In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
• Isaiah 28:20 μάχομαι For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
• Jeremiah 40:5 μάχομαι Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3164) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.