Strong's #3163: mache (pronounced makh'-ay)

from 3164; a battle, i.e. (figuratively) controversy:--fighting, strive, striving.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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machē

1) a fight or combat

1a) of those in arms, a battle

1b) of persons at variance, disputants etc., strife, contention

1c) a quarrel

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G3164

Citing in TDNT: 4:527, 573

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

2 Corinthians 7:5: "on every side; without were fightings, within were fears."
2 Timothy 2:23: "knowing that they do engender strifes."
Titus 3:9: "and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable"
James 4:1: "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,"