H4421: מִלְחָמָה
milchâmâh · pronounced mil-khaw-maw' · “battle”
Definition
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
KJV translates it as: battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).
Word origin: from H3898 (לָחַם) (in the sense of fighting);
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4421 is translated
- battle ×178
- war ×95
- warfare ×9
- wars ×7
- the wars of ×5
- your ×4
- his ×3
- a battle ×3
- their ×2
- our ×2
- the battles of ×2
- was war ×2
Bible verses with H4421 (milchâmâh)
Milchâmâh appears in 309 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 14:2
That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
- Genesis 14:8
And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
- Exodus 1:10
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
- Exodus 13:17
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
- Exodus 15:3
The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
- Exodus 17:16
For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
- Exodus 32:17
And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
- Numbers 10:9
And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
- Numbers 21:14
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
- Numbers 21:33
And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
- Numbers 31:14
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
- Numbers 31:21
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;
- Numbers 31:27
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
- Numbers 31:28
And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
- Numbers 31:49
And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
- Numbers 32:6
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
- Numbers 32:20
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,
- Numbers 32:27
But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
- Numbers 32:29
And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
- Deuteronomy 1:41
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
- Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- Deuteronomy 2:14
And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
- Deuteronomy 2:16
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
- Deuteronomy 2:24
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Deuteronomy 2:32
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
All 309 references
- Deuteronomy 3:1
- Deuteronomy 4:34
- Deuteronomy 20:1
- Deuteronomy 20:2
- Deuteronomy 20:3
- Deuteronomy 20:5
- Deuteronomy 20:6
- Deuteronomy 20:7
- Deuteronomy 20:12
- Deuteronomy 20:20
- Deuteronomy 21:10
- Deuteronomy 29:7
- Joshua 4:13
- Joshua 5:4
- Joshua 5:6
- Joshua 6:3
- Joshua 8:1
- Joshua 8:3
- Joshua 8:11
- Joshua 8:14
- Joshua 10:7
- Joshua 10:24
- Joshua 11:7
- Joshua 11:18
- Joshua 11:19
- Joshua 11:20
- Joshua 11:23
- Joshua 14:11
- Joshua 14:15
- Joshua 17:1
- Judges 3:1
- Judges 3:2
- Judges 3:10
- Judges 8:13
- Judges 18:11
- Judges 18:16
- Judges 18:17
- Judges 20:14
- Judges 20:17
- Judges 20:18
- Judges 20:20
- Judges 20:22
- Judges 20:23
- Judges 20:28
- Judges 20:34
- Judges 20:39
- Judges 20:42
- Judges 21:22
- 1 Samuel 4:1
- 1 Samuel 4:2
- 1 Samuel 7:10
- 1 Samuel 8:12
- 1 Samuel 8:20
- 1 Samuel 13:15
- 1 Samuel 13:22
- 1 Samuel 14:20
- 1 Samuel 14:22
- 1 Samuel 14:23
- 1 Samuel 14:52
- 1 Samuel 16:18
- 1 Samuel 17:1
- 1 Samuel 17:2
- 1 Samuel 17:8
- 1 Samuel 17:13
- 1 Samuel 17:20
- 1 Samuel 17:28
- 1 Samuel 17:33
- 1 Samuel 17:47
- 1 Samuel 18:5
- 1 Samuel 18:17
- 1 Samuel 19:8
- 1 Samuel 23:8
- 1 Samuel 25:28
- 1 Samuel 26:10
- 1 Samuel 29:4
- 1 Samuel 29:9
- 1 Samuel 30:24
- 1 Samuel 31:3
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 2 Samuel 1:25
- 2 Samuel 1:27
- 2 Samuel 2:17
- 2 Samuel 3:1
- 2 Samuel 3:6
- 2 Samuel 3:30
- 2 Samuel 8:10
- 2 Samuel 10:8
- 2 Samuel 10:9
- 2 Samuel 10:13
- 2 Samuel 11:7
- 2 Samuel 11:15
- 2 Samuel 11:18
- 2 Samuel 11:19
- 2 Samuel 11:25
- 2 Samuel 17:8
- 2 Samuel 18:6
- 2 Samuel 18:8
- 2 Samuel 19:3
- 2 Samuel 19:10
- 2 Samuel 21:15
- 2 Samuel 21:17
- 2 Samuel 21:18
- 2 Samuel 21:19
- 2 Samuel 21:20
- 2 Samuel 22:35
- 2 Samuel 22:40
- 2 Samuel 23:9
- 1 Kings 2:5
- 1 Kings 5:3
- 1 Kings 8:44
- 1 Kings 9:22
- 1 Kings 12:21
- 1 Kings 14:30
- 1 Kings 15:6
- 1 Kings 15:7
- 1 Kings 15:16
- 1 Kings 15:32
- 1 Kings 20:14
- 1 Kings 20:18
- 1 Kings 20:26
- 1 Kings 20:29
- 1 Kings 20:39
- 1 Kings 22:1
- 1 Kings 22:4
- 1 Kings 22:6
- 1 Kings 22:15
- 1 Kings 22:30
- 1 Kings 22:35
- 2 Kings 3:7
- 2 Kings 3:26
- 2 Kings 8:28
- 2 Kings 13:25
- 2 Kings 14:7
- 2 Kings 16:5
- 2 Kings 18:20
- 2 Kings 24:16
- 2 Kings 25:4
- 2 Kings 25:19
- 1 Chronicles 5:10
- 1 Chronicles 5:18
- 1 Chronicles 5:19
- 1 Chronicles 5:20
- 1 Chronicles 5:22
- 1 Chronicles 7:4
- 1 Chronicles 7:11
- 1 Chronicles 7:40
- 1 Chronicles 10:3
- 1 Chronicles 11:13
- 1 Chronicles 12:1
- 1 Chronicles 12:8
- 1 Chronicles 12:19
- 1 Chronicles 12:33
- 1 Chronicles 12:35
- 1 Chronicles 12:36
- 1 Chronicles 12:37
- 1 Chronicles 12:38
- 1 Chronicles 14:15
- 1 Chronicles 18:10
- 1 Chronicles 19:7
- 1 Chronicles 19:9
- 1 Chronicles 19:10
- 1 Chronicles 19:14
- 1 Chronicles 19:17
- 1 Chronicles 20:4
- 1 Chronicles 20:5
- 1 Chronicles 20:6
- 1 Chronicles 22:8
- 1 Chronicles 26:27
- 1 Chronicles 28:3
- 2 Chronicles 6:34
- 2 Chronicles 8:9
- 2 Chronicles 11:1
- 2 Chronicles 12:15
- 2 Chronicles 13:2
- 2 Chronicles 13:3
- 2 Chronicles 13:14
- 2 Chronicles 14:6
- 2 Chronicles 14:10
- 2 Chronicles 15:19
- 2 Chronicles 16:9
- 2 Chronicles 17:13
- 2 Chronicles 18:3
- 2 Chronicles 18:5
- 2 Chronicles 18:14
- 2 Chronicles 18:29
- 2 Chronicles 18:34
- 2 Chronicles 20:1
- 2 Chronicles 20:15
- 2 Chronicles 22:5
- 2 Chronicles 25:8
- 2 Chronicles 25:13
- 2 Chronicles 26:11
- 2 Chronicles 26:13
- 2 Chronicles 27:7
- 2 Chronicles 32:2
- 2 Chronicles 32:6
- 2 Chronicles 32:8
- 2 Chronicles 35:21
- Job 5:20
- Job 38:23
- Job 39:25
- Job 41:8
- Psalms 18:34
- Psalms 18:39
- Psalms 24:8
- Psalms 27:3
- Psalms 46:9
- Psalms 76:3
- Psalms 89:43
- Psalms 120:7
- Psalms 140:2
- Psalms 144:1
- Proverbs 20:18
- Proverbs 21:31
- Proverbs 24:6
- Ecclesiastes 3:8
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
- Ecclesiastes 9:11
- Song of Solomon 3:8
- Isaiah 2:4
- Isaiah 3:2
- Isaiah 3:25
- Isaiah 7:1
- Isaiah 13:4
- Isaiah 21:15
- Isaiah 22:2
- Isaiah 27:4
- Isaiah 28:6
- Isaiah 30:32
- Isaiah 36:5
- Isaiah 41:12
- Isaiah 42:13
- Isaiah 42:25
- Jeremiah 4:19
- Jeremiah 6:4
- Jeremiah 6:23
- Jeremiah 8:6
- Jeremiah 18:21
- Jeremiah 21:4
- Jeremiah 28:8
- Jeremiah 38:4
- Jeremiah 39:4
- Jeremiah 41:3
- Jeremiah 41:16
- Jeremiah 42:14
- Jeremiah 46:3
- Jeremiah 48:14
- Jeremiah 49:2
- Jeremiah 49:14
- Jeremiah 49:26
- Jeremiah 50:22
- Jeremiah 50:30
- Jeremiah 50:42
- Jeremiah 51:20
- Jeremiah 51:32
- Jeremiah 52:7
- Jeremiah 52:25
- Ezekiel 7:14
- Ezekiel 13:5
- Ezekiel 17:17
- Ezekiel 27:10
- Ezekiel 27:27
- Ezekiel 32:27
- Ezekiel 39:20
- Daniel 9:26
- Daniel 11:20
- Daniel 11:25
- Hosea 1:7
- Hosea 2:18
- Hosea 10:9
- Hosea 10:14
- Joel 2:5
- Joel 2:7
- Joel 3:9
- Amos 1:14
- Obadiah 1:1
- Micah 2:8
- Micah 3:5
- Micah 4:3
- Zechariah 9:10
- Zechariah 10:3
- Zechariah 10:4
- Zechariah 10:5
- Zechariah 14:2