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Strong's #4421: milchamah (pronounced mil-khaw-maw')

from 3898 (in the sense of fighting); a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare):--battle, fight(-ing), war((-rior)).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

milchâmâh

1) battle, war

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H3898 (in the sense of fighting)



Usage:

This word is used 319 times:

1 Kings 20:39: "Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought"
1 Kings 22:1: "three years without war between Syria and Israel."
1 Kings 22:4: "Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to"
1 Kings 22:6: "and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?"
1 Kings 22:15: "shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered"
1 Kings 22:30: "Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king"
1 Kings 22:30: "of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle."
1 Kings 22:35: " And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot"
2 Kings 3:7: "with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people,"
2 Kings 3:26: "of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with"
2 Kings 8:28: "Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria"
2 Kings 13:25: "he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times"
2 Kings 14:7: "and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel"
2 Kings 16:5: "of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could"
2 Kings 18:20: "words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust,"
2 Kings 24:16: "all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive"
2 Kings 25:4: "was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between"
2 Kings 25:19: "that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were"
1 Chronicles 5:10: "And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand:"
1 Chronicles 5:18: "and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were four and forty thousand"
1 Chronicles 5:19: "And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab."
1 Chronicles 5:20: "that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them; because they put their trust"
1 Chronicles 5:22: "many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads"
1 Chronicles 7:4: "of their fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men: for"
1 Chronicles 7:11: "thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle."
1 Chronicles 7:40: "of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand"
1 Chronicles 10:3: " And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded"
1 Chronicles 11:13: "and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where was a parcel of ground full"
1 Chronicles 12:1: "of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war."
1 Chronicles 12:8: "of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces"
1 Chronicles 12:19: "the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords"
1 Chronicles 12:33: "Of Zebulun, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, with all instruments of war,"
1 Chronicles 12:33: "expert in war, with all instruments of war, fifty thousand, which could keep rank:"
1 Chronicles 12:35: "And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six"
1 Chronicles 12:36: "And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand."
1 Chronicles 12:37: "of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred and twenty thousand."
1 Chronicles 12:38: "All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect"
1 Chronicles 14:15: "of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before"
1 Chronicles 18:10: "against Hadarezer, and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had war with Tou;)"
1 Chronicles 19:7: "gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle."
1 Chronicles 19:9: "And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings"
1 Chronicles 19:10: "Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before"
1 Chronicles 19:14: "him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before"
1 Chronicles 19:17: "Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array"
1 Chronicles 20:4: "after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time"
1 Chronicles 20:5: "And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair"
1 Chronicles 20:6: "And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes"
1 Chronicles 22:8: "abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build a house unto my name,"
1 Chronicles 26:27: "Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 28:3: "because thou hast been a man of war, and hast shed blood."









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