מִלְחָמָה milchamah

Hebrew word for “battle” · Strong’s H4421 · used 319 times in 308 verses

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Meaning

battle, war

How it is translated

Glosses given for milchamah in context, with how often each is used:

• battle 184
• war 104
• wars 13
• warfare 11
• battles 5
• like the battle 1
• will be wars 1

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 20 (10), Deuteronomy 20 (8), 1 Samuel 17 (8), 1 Chronicles 12 (8), 1 Kings 22 (6), Numbers 31 (5), Deuteronomy 2 (5), Joshua 11 (5), 2 Samuel 11 (5), 2 Samuel 21 (5)

Forms

• מלחמה 92
• למלחמה 71
• המלחמה 69
• במלחמה 38
• מלחמות 11
• ומלחמה 10
• מלחמתך 4
• ובמלחמה 3
• והמלחמה 3
• מלחמת 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with milchamah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֱנוֹשׁ enosh “human” 45
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 44
• עִם im “with” 42
• גִּבּוֹר gibbor “mighty man” 25
• עָרַךְ arakh “to arrange” 21
• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 24
• חַיִל chayil “strength” 23
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 30
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 24
• דָּוִד david “David” 29
• לָחַם lacham “to fight” 19
• עִיר ir “city” 29

Key verses

The verses using milchamah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 4:34 — Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand,…
• Deuteronomy 20:1 — When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God…
• 2 Chronicles 16:9 — For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou…
• Ecclesiastes 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of…
• Jeremiah 4:19 — My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the…
• Jeremiah 38:4 — Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this…
• Daniel 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the…
• Hosea 2:18 — And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I…
• Micah 3:5 — Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths,…
• Micah 4:3 — And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:…
• Zechariah 10:5 — And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the LORD is with them,…
• Zechariah 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.