מִלְחָמָה
battle
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 290 times (91%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 11 times (3%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct 10 times (3%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 8 times (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 319 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 1 of 2 — showing verses 1–200 of 308 distinct verses where H4421 appears, across 27 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 14:2 מִלְחָמָ֗ה n c fs that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
- Genesis 14:8 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs There went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
Exodus 5 verses
- Exodus 1:10 מִלְחָמָה֙ n c fs 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 13:17 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
- Exodus 15:3 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs Yahweh is a man of war. Yahweh is his name.
- Exodus 17:16 מִלְחָמָ֥ה n c fs He said, "Yah has sworn: 'Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'"
- Exodus 32:17 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
Numbers 12 verses
- Numbers 10:9 מִלְחָמָ֜ה n c fs When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 21:14 מִלְחֲמֹ֣ת n c fp cs Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, Vaheb in Suphah, The valleys of the Arnon,
- Numbers 21:33 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
- Numbers 31:14 הַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
- Numbers 31:21 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
- Numbers 31:27 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
- Numbers 31:28 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:
- Numbers 31:49 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
- Numbers 32:6 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
- Numbers 32:20 לַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
- Numbers 32:27 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.
- Numbers 32:29 לַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ prep det + n c fs Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Deuteronomy 18 verses
- Deuteronomy 1:41 מִלְחַמְתּ֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms 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 2:9 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs Yahweh said to me, Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:14 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
- Deuteronomy 2:16 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
- Deuteronomy 2:24 מִלְחָמָֽה n c fs Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Deuteronomy 2:32 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
- Deuteronomy 3:1 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
- Deuteronomy 4:34 וּ/בְ/מִלְחָמָ֗ה conj + prep + n c fs Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 20:1 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֜ה prep det + n c fs When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 20:2 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
- Deuteronomy 20:3 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs and shall tell them, Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;
- Deuteronomy 20:5 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- Deuteronomy 20:6 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit of it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit of it.
- Deuteronomy 20:7 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
- Deuteronomy 20:12 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
- Deuteronomy 20:20 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 21:10 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
- Deuteronomy 29:7 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs 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 18 verses
- Joshua 4:13 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
- Joshua 5:4 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs This is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.
- Joshua 5:6 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Joshua 6:3 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days.
- Joshua 8:1 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;
- Joshua 8:3 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
- Joshua 8:11 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֜ה ptcl def.art + n c fs All the people, [even] the [men of] war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.
- Joshua 8:14 לַֽ/מִּלְחָמָ֞ה prep det + n c fs It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
- Joshua 10:7 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
- Joshua 10:24 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them.
- Joshua 11:7 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.
- Joshua 11:18 מִלְחָמָֽה n c fs Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
- Joshua 11:19 בַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.
- Joshua 11:20 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Joshua 11:23 מִ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep + n c fs So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
- Joshua 14:11 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
- Joshua 14:15 מִ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep + n c fs Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba; [which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.
- Joshua 17:1 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs [This] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
Judges 18 verses
- Judges 3:1 מִלְחֲמ֥וֹת n c fp cs Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Judges 3:2 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:
- Judges 3:10 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.
- Judges 8:13 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
- Judges 18:11 מִלְחָמָֽה n c fs There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- Judges 18:16 מִלְחַמְתָּ֔/ם n c fs cs + sfx pers 3mp The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
- Judges 18:17 הַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
- Judges 20:14 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
- Judges 20:17 מִלְחָמָֽה n c fs The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.
- Judges 20:18 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.
- Judges 20:20 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה מִלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs n c fs The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
- Judges 20:22 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
- Judges 20:23 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.
- Judges 20:28 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה prep det + n c fs and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
- Judges 20:34 וְ/הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
- Judges 20:39 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה כַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
- Judges 20:42 וְ/הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.
- Judges 21:22 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
1 Samuel 29 verses
- 1 Samuel 4:1 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה prep det + n c fs The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
- 1 Samuel 4:2 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.
- 1 Samuel 7:10 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they were struck down before Israel.
- 1 Samuel 8:12 מִלְחַמְתּ֖/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
- 1 Samuel 8:20 מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽ/נוּ n c fp cs + sfx pers 1cp that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
- 1 Samuel 13:22 מִלְחֶ֔מֶת n c fs So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
- 1 Samuel 14:20 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.
- 1 Samuel 14:22 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
- 1 Samuel 14:23 וְ/הַ֨/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.
- 1 Samuel 14:52 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.
- 1 Samuel 16:18 מִלְחָמָ֛ה n c fs Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
- 1 Samuel 17:1 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- 1 Samuel 17:2 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 17:8 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
- 1 Samuel 17:13 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
- 1 Samuel 17:20 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
- 1 Samuel 17:28 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
- 1 Samuel 17:33 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
- 1 Samuel 17:47 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand.
- 1 Samuel 18:5 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
- 1 Samuel 18:17 מִלְחֲמ֣וֹת n c fp cs Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.
- 1 Samuel 19:8 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
- 1 Samuel 23:8 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
- 1 Samuel 25:28 מִלְחֲמ֤וֹת n c fp cs Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.
- 1 Samuel 26:10 בַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה prep det + n c fs David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- 1 Samuel 29:4 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?
- 1 Samuel 29:9 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs Achish answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
- 1 Samuel 30:24 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה prep det + n c fs Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike.
- 1 Samuel 31:3 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
2 Samuel 29 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:4 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs David said to him, How went the matter? Please tell me. He answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
- 2 Samuel 1:25 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
- 2 Samuel 1:27 מִלְחָמָֽה n c fs How are the mighty fallen, The weapons of war perished!
- 2 Samuel 2:17 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
- 2 Samuel 3:1 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
- 2 Samuel 3:6 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It happened, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.
- 2 Samuel 3:30 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2 Samuel 8:10 מִלְחֲמ֥וֹת n c fp cs then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
- 2 Samuel 10:8 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
- 2 Samuel 10:9 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
- 2 Samuel 10:13 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.
- 2 Samuel 11:7 הַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs When Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.
- 2 Samuel 11:15 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs He wrote in the letter, saying, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire you from him, that he may be struck, and die.
- 2 Samuel 11:18 הַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
- 2 Samuel 11:19 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and he charged the messenger, saying, "When you have made an end of telling all the things concerning the war to the king,
- 2 Samuel 11:25 מִלְחַמְתְּ/ךָ֧ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you tell Joab, Don't let this thing displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.
- 2 Samuel 17:8 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, as a bear robbed of her cubs in the field; and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
- 2 Samuel 18:6 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
- 2 Samuel 18:8 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- 2 Samuel 19:3 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
- 2 Samuel 19:10 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
- 2 Samuel 21:15 מִלְחָמָ֛ה n c fs The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
- 2 Samuel 21:17 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 21:18 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs It came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
- 2 Samuel 21:19 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs There was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite's brother, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
- 2 Samuel 21:20 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, who had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
- 2 Samuel 22:35 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs He teaches my hands to war, So that my arms do bend a bow of brass.
- 2 Samuel 22:40 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs For you have girded me with strength to the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
- 2 Samuel 23:9 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
1 Kings 21 verses
- 1 Kings 2:5 מִלְחָמָ֖ה מִלְחָמָ֗ה n c fs n c fs Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
- 1 Kings 5:3 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.
- 1 Kings 8:44 לַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ prep det + n c fs If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
- 1 Kings 9:22 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- 1 Kings 12:21 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 14:30 וּ/מִלְחָמָ֨ה conj + n c fs There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
- 1 Kings 15:6 וּ/מִלְחָמָ֨ה conj + n c fs Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
- 1 Kings 15:7 וּ/מִלְחָמָ֥ה conj + n c fs The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
- 1 Kings 15:16 וּ/מִלְחָמָ֨ה conj + n c fs There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
- 1 Kings 15:32 וּ/מִלְחָמָ֨ה conj + n c fs There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
- 1 Kings 20:14 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Ahab said, By whom? He said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? He answered, You.
- 1 Kings 20:18 לְ/מִלְחָמָ֛ה prep + n c fs He said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they are come out for war, taken them alive.
- 1 Kings 20:26 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
- 1 Kings 20:29 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred thousand footmen in one day.
- 1 Kings 20:39 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs As the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
- 1 Kings 22:1 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
- 1 Kings 22:4 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs He said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
- 1 Kings 22:6 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
- 1 Kings 22:15 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? He answered him, Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
- 1 Kings 22:30 בַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה בַּ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs prep det + n c fs The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put you on your robes. The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
- 1 Kings 22:35 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.
2 Kings 10 verses
- 2 Kings 3:7 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
- 2 Kings 3:26 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
- 2 Kings 8:28 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה prep det + n c fs He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
- 2 Kings 13:25 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash strike him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
- 2 Kings 14:7 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs He killed of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and called the name of it Joktheel, to this day.
- 2 Kings 16:5 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
- 2 Kings 18:20 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs You say (but they are but vain words), [There is] counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
- 2 Kings 24:16 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:4 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
- 2 Kings 25:19 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
1 Chronicles 31 verses
- 1 Chronicles 5:10 מִלְחָמָה֙ n c fs In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.
- 1 Chronicles 5:19 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
- 1 Chronicles 5:20 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
- 1 Chronicles 5:22 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה ptcl def.art + n c fs For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
- 1 Chronicles 7:4 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs With them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the host for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
- 1 Chronicles 7:11 לַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war.
- 1 Chronicles 7:40 בַּ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. The number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty-six thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 10:3 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.
- 1 Chronicles 11:13 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 12:1 הַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
- 1 Chronicles 12:8 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה prep det + n c fs Of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes on the mountains;
- 1 Chronicles 12:19 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה prep det + n c fs Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they didn't help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
- 1 Chronicles 12:33 מִלְחָמָ֛ה מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs n c fs Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could order [the battle array, and were] not of double heart.
- 1 Chronicles 12:35 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 12:36 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs Of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, who could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 12:37 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 12:38 מִלְחָמָה֮ n c fs All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
- 1 Chronicles 14:15 בַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God is gone out before you to strike the host of the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 18:10 מִלְחֲמ֥וֹת n c fp cs he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadarezer and struck him; (for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and [he had with him] all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
- 1 Chronicles 19:7 לַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה prep det + n c fs So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
- 1 Chronicles 19:9 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.
- 1 Chronicles 19:10 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֛ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
- 1 Chronicles 19:14 לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֑ה prep det + n c fs So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.
- 1 Chronicles 19:17 מִלְחָמָ֔ה n c fs It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 מִלְחָמָ֛ה n c fs It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
- 1 Chronicles 20:5 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs There was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
- 1 Chronicles 20:6 מִלְחָמָ֖ה n c fs There was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were twenty-four, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]; and he also was born to the giant.
- 1 Chronicles 22:8 וּ/מִלְחָמ֥וֹת conj + n c fp But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
- 1 Chronicles 26:27 הַ/מִּלְחָמ֥וֹת ptcl def.art + n c fp Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Chronicles 28:3 מִלְחָמ֛וֹת n c fp But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a man of war, and have shed blood.
2 Chronicles 29 verses
- 2 Chronicles 6:34 לַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ prep det + n c fs If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
- 2 Chronicles 8:9 מִלְחָמָה֙ n c fs But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
- 2 Chronicles 11:1 מִלְחָמָ֑ה n c fs When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
- 2 Chronicles 12:15 וּ/מִלְחֲמ֧וֹת conj + n c fp cs Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
- 2 Chronicles 13:2 וּ/מִלְחָמָ֥ה conj + n c fs Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 13:3 הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֗ה מִלְחָמָ֔ה מִלְחָמָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs n c fs n c fs Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 13:14 הַ/מִּלְחָמָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
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The Hebrew noun מלחמה centers on the idea of “battle.” Debuting at Genesis 14:2, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 308 verses across 27 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. It shares a root with לחם, לחום and לחם. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
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About this word
Strong's H4421 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 308
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 308 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #156
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 156 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 308 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 31 verses 10%
- 1 Samuel 29 verses 9%
- 2 Samuel 29 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 308 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 187 verses · 61%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 84 verses · 27%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 37 verses · 12%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Battle 125×, War 125×, Was war 8×
- American Standard Version: Battle 109×, War 106×, Was war 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Battle 134×, War 90×, Fight 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Battle 171×, War 106×, Battles 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4421 across 315 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 37 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4421 across 312 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 60 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4421 across 298 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 21 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4421 across 310 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- battle, war
Word origin
n.f. battle, war;—abs. מ׳ Gn 14:2, 8 Ex 1:10 +; cstr. מִלְחֶ֫מֶת 1 S 13:22 (מ׳ מִכְמָשׁ 𝔊 Th We Bu HPS Ew§ 188 c Köii 182 > abs. Thes al.); sf. מִלְחַמְתִּי 2 Ch 35:21; מִלְחַמְתְּךָ 2 S 11:25; מִלְחַמְתֶּ֑ךָ Is 41:12, etc.; pl. מִלְחָמוֹת Is 42:13 + 7 times Ch ψψ; cstr. מִלְחֲמוֹת Ju 3:1 +, etc.;—battle, Gn 14:8 1 S 17:1, 2, 8; 31:3 1 K 20:14, 18, 29, 39 + often; war, Gn 14:2 Ex 1:10 Dt 20:12 Jos 11:23; 14:15 2 S 3:1 (וַתְּהִי הַמִּלְחָמָה אֲרֻכָּה) +; מִלְחֲמוֹת כְּנָ֑עַן Ju 3:1; סֵפֶר מִלְחֲמֹת י׳ Nu 21:14 (JE); acc. cogn. c. נלחם †1 S 8:20 2 Ch 32:8 and (מִלְחֲמוֹת י׳) 1 S 18:17; 25:28†; = art of war, למד מ׳ Is 2:4 learn war = Mi 4:3; למּד מ׳ Ju 3:2 teach war, fighting; מְלַמֵּד יָדַי לַמּ׳ 2 S 22:35 = ψ 18:35, cf. ψ 144:1; לְמוּדֵי מ׳ 1 Ch 5:18, מְלֻמְּדֵי מ׳ Ct 3:8 instructed in war; once = battlefield וַיָּבֹאוּ עַד הַמּ׳ 1 S 14:20 (so KitKauAT). The most freq. phrases are: †אִישׁ מ׳ Is 3:2 1 S 16:18; 17:33 2 S 17:8 Ez 39:20 Jos 17:1 (P), also (coll.) Ju 20:17, of י׳ Ex 15:3 (poem); אַנְשֵׁי הַמּ׳ Jos 6:3; 10:24 (both JE), Dt 2:14, 16 Jos 5:4, 6 (all D), Je 38:4; 39:4; 41:3, 16; 49:26; 51:32; 52:7, 25, also 1 K 9:22 2 K 25:4 Nu 31:28, 49 (P), Jo 4:9; late אַנְשֵׁי מ׳ Jo 2:7 1 Ch 12:39 (v 38 van d. H) 2 Ch 8:9; 17:13; אִישׁ מִלְחָמוֹת Is 42:13 1 Ch 28:3; אַנְשֵׁי מִלְחַמְתָּהּ Je 50:30 her men of war, cf. Is 41:12 Ez 27:10, 27; אִישׁ מִלְחֲמוֹת תֹּעִי 2 S 8:10 a man of battles of Toi, i.e. his frequent opponent (v. Dr), = 1 Ch 18:10; seldom גִּבּוֹר מ׳ ψ 24:8 (of י׳), גִּבּוֹרֵי מ׳ 2 Ch 13:3; שָׂרֵי מִלְחָמוֹת 2 Ch 32:6; עַם הַמּ׳ Jos 8:1, 3; 10:7; 11:7, cf. 8:11 (all JE), cf. also 1 S 13:16 add. 𝔊 We Dr, cf. Klo; אַנְשֵׁי חַיִל לַמּ׳ Je 48:14; צְבָא מ׳ battle-host Is 13:4, so צ׳ הַמּ׳ Nu 31:14 (P); also גְּדוּדֵי צְבָא מ׳ 1 Ch 7:4, יֹצְאֵי צ׳ לַמּ׳ v 11, אַנְשֵׁי צָבָא לַמּ׳ 1 Ch 12:9 (v 8 van d. H)†; weapons of war, כְּלֵי (ה)מ׳ Ju 18:11, 17 Je 21:4; 51:20 1 Ch 12:34 (v 33 van d. H), also fig. 2 S 1:27 (‖ גִּבּוֹרִים); כְּלֵי צְבָא מ׳ 1 Ch 12:38 (v 37 van d. H.); קֶשֶׁת מ׳ Zc 9:10; 10:4; כְּלֵי מִלְחַמְתּוֹ his weapons of war 1 S 8:12 Dt 1:41, cf. Ju 18:16 Ez 32:37; דִּבְרֵי הַמּ׳ = the news of the battle 2 S 11:18, 19 + v 22 add. 𝔊 The We Klo Dr Bu. Freq. combin. with vbs. are: עָרַךְ מ׳ draw up battle-line Ju 20:22 +, sq. אֵת with = against Gn 14:8 Ju 20:20, sq. עִם 2 Ch 13:3; אסר המּ׳ i.e. begin the battle 1 K 20:14, cf. 2 Ch 13:3; וַתִּקְרַב הַמּ׳ 1 K 20:29 and the battle was joined; עָשָׂה מ׳ make war Pr 20:8; 24:6 1 Ch 22:8, sq. אֵת with Gn 14:2 Jos 11:18 (D), sq. עִם Dt 20:12, 20 1 Ch 5:10, 19; †יָצָא לַמּ׳ עִם Ju 20:14, 20, 28, c. עַל 1 K 8:44 2 Ch 6:34; הָלַךְ לַמּ׳ עִם 2 K 8:28; נגשׁ לַמּ׳ עִם Ju 20:23, c. בְּ 1 S 7:10 2 S 10:13, abs. Je 46:3†; וַתְּהִי הַמּ׳ עִם 2 S 21:18, 19, c. בֵּין 2 S 3:1, cf. v 6 +; †קִדַּשׁ מ׳ consecrate war, i.e. open a campaign (with sacred rites, Che) Mi 3:5 Je 6:4 (both c. על), Jo 4:9; cf. †וְהַמּ׳ הִדְבִּיקָתְהוּ Ju 20:42 and the battle clung to them; וַתַּעֲלֶה הַמּ׳ 22:35 and the battle rose (high) = 2 Ch 18:34; וַתִּטּשׁ הַמּ׳ 1 S 4:2, read וַתֵּט הַמּ׳ (𝔊 We Klo Bu, cf. Dr) and the battle inclined (in favour of one side); נָפוֹצֶת הַמּ׳ 2 S 18:8 Qr the battle was spread (extended), so read 1 S 14:24 add. 𝔊 The We Klo Dr; תָּקוּם עָלַי מ׳ ψ 27:3 if war rise against me†; הַמּ׳ כָּבֵ֑דָה Ju 20:34 the battle was severe, cf. וַתִּכְבַּד הַמּ׳ אֶל־שָׁאוּל 1 S 31:3 = 1 Ch 10:3 (על for אל); so וַתְּהִי הַמּ׳ חֲזָקָה 1 S 14:52, חָזַק מִמֶּנּוּ הַמּ׳ 2 K 3:26; וַתְּהִי הַמּ׳ קָשָׁה 2 S 2:17: cf. כֹּבֶד מ׳ Is 21:15, עֱזוּז מ׳ 42:25.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לחם (lâcham) (H3898) — to fight.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִלְחָמָה
- war, contest. Sot. VIII, 1, a. fr. משוח מ׳ chaplain of the army (Deut. XX, 2), v. מָשַׁח I. Ib. 7 מִלְחֶמֶת הרשות (Bab. ed. 44ᵇ, pl.) secular (political) warfare; מ׳ מצוה a war for religious causes; מ׳ חובה וכ׳ a war of duty. Ib. 44ᵇ מ׳ יהושע וכ׳ the war of conquest under Joshua, all agree, is a war of duty &c.—Meg. 15ᵇ מִלְחַמְתָּהּ של תורה disputes about the Law; a. fr.—Pl. מִלְחָמוֹת. Sot. l. c. מִלְחֲמוֹת בית דוד לרווחה the wars of the house of David for extending the dominion. M. Kat. 25ᵇ (in a eulogy) גזע … ועמו ספר מ׳ an offspring of worthies came up from Babylonia and with him came the book of wars (allegorically for knowledge of the Law; oth. interpret. R. Hamnuna who came with Rabbah). Snh. 97ᵃ בשביעית מ׳ in the seventh Messianic year there will be wars; a. fr. e.g. Deuteronomy 20:2
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 84 distinct written forms H4421 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 24 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4421, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 294 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 308 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 14:2
- Exodus 1:10
- Numbers 10:9
- Deuteronomy 1:41
- Joshua 4:13
- Judges 3:1
- 1 Samuel 4:1
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 1 Kings 2:5
- 2 Kings 3:7
- 1 Chronicles 5:10
- 2 Chronicles 6:34
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
