ΜΑΧΑΣ, μαχας
MACHAS, machas
Sounds Like: MA-khas
Translations: battles, fights, quarrels, disputes
From the root: ΜΑΧΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the accusative plural form of the noun 'μάχη' (machē), meaning 'battle', 'fight', or 'quarrel'. It refers to conflicts or disputes, whether physical or verbal. It is used in sentences to indicate the object of an action, such as 'preparing battles' or 'entering into quarrels'.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G3163 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:81
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 6:153
- Book 4 — 7:170, 8:181
- Book 6 — 9:180, 10:195
- Book 8 — 1:1
- Book 14 — 13:358
- Book 17 — 10:280
- Book 19 — 1:93
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 15:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΑΧΗ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΜΑΧΗΤΙ — without a fight, without battle, unopposed, without resistance
- ἈΜΑΧΙ — without a fight, without battle, peacefully
- ΑΜΑΧΟ — unwarlike, peaceable, not contentious, not quarrelsome
- ΑΧΙΑΝ — battle, fight, combat, a battle, a fight
- ΜΑΧ — battle, fight, contention, strife, a battle, a fight
- ΜΑΧΑΙΣ — (to) battles, (for) battles, (in) battles, (with) battles
- ΜΑΧΗ — battle, fight, conflict, a battle, a fight, a conflict
- ΜΑΧΗΝ — battle, fight, combat, a battle, a fight, a combat
- ΜΑΧΗΣ — of battle, of fight, of combat, of a battle, of a fight, of a combat
- ΜΑΧΙ — battle, fight, combat, a battle, a fight
- ΜΑΧ‾Η‾ — fight, a fight, battle, a battle, dispute, a dispute, quarrel, a quarrel
- ΤΗΝΜΑΧΗΝ — the battle, the fight, a battle, a fight
- ΤΗΣΜΑΧΗΣ — of the battle, of the fight, of the conflict
- ΤΟΤΕΜΑΧΗΣ — of battle, of a battle, of a fight, of fighting
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