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Koine Greek wordlink #122927

SR GNT 2 Cor 7:5 μάχαι (maⱪai) ‘everything being oppressed outside quarrels inside fears’ Strongs=31630 Lemma=maχē
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=60 AD

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Other uses (1) of identical word form μάχαι (N-NFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘μάχαι’ (N-NFP) is always and only glossed as ‘quarrels’.

Yac (Jam) 4:1 ‘wars and from_where quarrels among you_all are not is_it’ SR GNT Yac (Jam) 4:1 word 7

OET-LV: 4 From _where wars and from _where quarrels among you _all are? Not is _it from _here from the gratifications of _you _all, which warring in the members of _you _all? (JAM_4:1)

OET-RV: 4 Where do you imagine that the fights and quarrels among you all originate? Isn’t it because of the ambitions that surface inside you? (JAM 4:1)

Greek words (3) other than μάχαι (N-NFP) with a gloss related to ‘quarrels’

1 COR 1:11 ἔριδες (erides) N-NFP Lemma=eris ‘the ones of Ⱪloaʸ that quarrels among you_all are’ SR GNT 1 Cor 1:11 word 13

OET-LV: 11 For/Because it _was _made _evident to _me concerning you _all, brothers of _me, by the ones of_Ⱪloaʸ, that quarrels among you _all are. (CO1_1:11)

OET-RV: 11 because, my brothers and sisters, it’s been made clear to me by some from Chloe’s household, that you are quarrelling among yourselves. (CO1 1:11)

2 TIM 2:23 μάχας (maⱪas) N-AFP ‘having known that they are bearing quarrels’ SR GNT 2 Tim 2:23 word 11

OET-LV: 23 And be _refusing the foolish and uneducated debates, having _known that they _are _bearing quarrels. (TI2_2:23)

OET-RV: 23 Refuse to enter foolish and uneducated debates, because they’ll just end in an argument. (TI2 2:23)

TIT 3:9 μάχας (maⱪas) N-AFP ‘and strifes and quarrels legal be avoiding they are’ SR GNT Tit 3:9 word 10

OET-LV: 9 But be _avoiding foolish debates, and genealogies, and strifes, and legal quarrels, they _are for unprofitable and useless. (TIT_3:9)

OET-RV: 9 But avoid foolish debates, arguments about ancestry, other strife, and quarrels about God’s commands because they all achieve nothing and waste time. (TIT 3:9)

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural NFP=nominative,feminine,plural