Words the Bible translates as fight
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- polemeōπολεμέωto make war on someone: to attack an enemy in open, sustained conflict, and so to be locked in hostility with them.
- laḥamלָחַםto fight, do battle, wage war
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- to eat, feed on, consume
- agōnἀγώνa strenuous struggle: a hard, sustained contest against opposition, often carried on in public and pictured as an athletic match run toward a prize.
- agōnizomaiἀγωνίζομαιto contend with all your strength: to throw everything you have into a contest you mean to win
- strateuōστρατεύωto be a soldier on active duty: to serve in an army and keep up its campaign.
- natsahנָצָהto fight: to be locked against another party in an open struggle, most often two people coming to blows
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- to be left in ruins: of a city or a countryside, knocked into heaps of rubble and emptied of people
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