Strong's #3164: machomai (pronounced makh'-om-ahee)

middle voice of an apparently primary verb; to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute:--fight, strive.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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machomai

1) to fight

1a) of armed combatants, or those who engage in a hand to hand struggle

1b) of those who engage in a war of words, to quarrel, wrangle, dispute

1c) of those who contend at law for property and privileges

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: middle voice of an apparently root word

Citing in TDNT: 4:527, 573

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

John 6:52: "The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How"
Acts 7:26: "day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again,"
2 Timothy 2:24: "of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto"
James 4:2: "and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet"