UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: μάχη; -ης

Related lemmas: μάχομαι

Sense 1: severe clash, struggle, fight

Semantic entry: 39.23

Semantic domains: Hostility, Strife

Subdomains: Strife, Struggle

Definition: serious conflict, either physical or non-physical, but clearly intensive and bitter

Notes: In order to suggest something of the intensity of conflict in μάχομαι and μάχη, it may be useful in some instances to employ similes in the rendering of these terms, for example, ‘they opposed one another just as though they were actually fighting one another’ or ‘they are fighting, as it were.’

Show passage in OET: CO2 7:5

OET-RV CO2 7:5

5 Actually, since we arrived in Makedonia we’ve had no physical rest but we’ve been oppressed in every way—on the outside there’s quarrels and on the inside we’ve had our fears,

OET-LV CO2 7:5

5 For/Because also having _come of _us into Makedonia, not _one has _had relaxation the flesh of _us, but in everything being _oppressed, outside quarrels, inside fears.

Show passage in OET: TI2 2:23

OET-RV TI2 2:23

23 Refuse to enter foolish and uneducated debates, because they’ll just end in an argument.

OET-LV TI2 2:23

23 And be _refusing the foolish and uneducated debates, having _known that they _are _bearing quarrels.

Jump to OET CO2 7:5 section.

Jump to OET TI2 2:23 section.

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

CO2: OET CO2 7:5

TI2: OET TI2 2:23

TIT: OET TIT 3:9

JAM: OET JAM 4:1

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

μάχη

Form 1

Sense 1: severe clash, struggle, fight