mil.cha.mah H4421

מִלְחָמָה (mil.cha.mah) means “battle” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

מִלְחָמָה Hebrew · H4421 319 tagged occurrences in 308 verses

Pronunciation guide: mil-khaw-maw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H4421

מִלְחָמָה · mil.cha.mah · battle

battle, war

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H3898 (לָחַם) (in the sense of fighting); a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)

KJV glosses: battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).

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How translators render H4421

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
for battle	32
of war	29
in battle	26
war	23
the battle	17
into battle	13
to war	13
for war	11
of battle	10
to fight	10
a battle	5
to battle	5
army	4
battle	4
and the battle	3
in formation	3
in the battle	3
of the battle	3
warriors	3
a war	2
and battle	2
at war	2
battles	2
from battle	2
from war	2
in the war	2
of the wars	2
our battles	2
the battle lines	2
to make war	2
to wage war	2
when the battle	2
and as the battle	1
and fight	1
and how the war	1
and in battle	1
and the war	1
and took up their battle	1
and war	1
and weapons of war	1
as warriors	1
as well as the battle	1
but the battle	1
during the war	1
fit for battle	1
he makes wars	1
his wars	1
i am fighting	1
i would march	1
in battle formation	1
in warfare	1
in wartime	1
joined the battle	1
made war	1
military	1
nor the battle	1
now the war	1
of fighting	1
or in battle	1
or war	1
ready for battle	1
saul	1
soldiers	1
that the battle	1
the army	1
the battle cry	1
the battle is	1
the fighting	1
the onslaught	1
the soldiers	1
the war	1
the wars waged	1
their battles	1
there was war	1
there will be war	1
those who wage war	1
to the battle	1
to the soldiers	1
took their battle	1
waged war	1
want war	1
warfare	1
wars	1
when war	1
will war	1
with weapons	1
your attack	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
of war	63
to battle	29
war	20
to the battle	12
to war	12
and the battle	10
in the battle	10
the battle	9
and there was war	8
battle	7
for the battle	7
in battle	7
for war	6
of battle	6
in war	5
to fight	5
of the battle	4
from war	3
into the battle	3
of the war	3
unto the battle	3
wars	3
and put the battle	2
by war	2
for the war	2
in the war	2
our battles	2
that the battle	2
unto battle	2
which were warriors	2
against her in battle	1
against me in battle	1
all the wars	1
also set the battle	1
and all his wars	1
and by war	1
and he had no war	1
and how the war	1
and in battles	1
and in war	1
and it came to pass while there was war	1
and set the battle	1
and there was again a battle	1
and there was yet a battle	1
and war	1
and yet again there was war	1
any war	1
battles	1
because the war	1
behold the battle	1
but the battle	1
concerning the war	1
for him in the war	1
from battle	1
from the battle	1
had put the battle	1
had war	1
had wars	1
had yet war	1
he maketh wars	1
him and they set the battle	1
into battle	1
lest in the battle	1
make thy battle	1
no more out with us to battle	1
no war	1
nor by battle	1
nor in battle	1
nor the battle	1
now for war	1
of fighting	1
of the wars	1
out of him the battle	1
set in battle	1
that there was again a battle	1
the battles	1
the war	1
the wars	1
them in the battle	1
them war	1
themselves and set their battle	1
though war	1
thy war	1
to the war	1
us unto battle	1
wherewith i have war	1
with him in battle	1
with him to battle	1
with him unto the battle	1
with me to battle	1
with thee in the war	1
with thee they that war	1
with them in battle	1
with us to battle	1
with us to the battle	1
without war	1
won in battles	1
ye war	1

Verses containing H4421

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Isaiah 27:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
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Isaiah 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
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Isaiah 30:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.
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Isaiah 36:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
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Isaiah 41:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.
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Isaiah 42:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:
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Isaiah 42:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
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Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
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Jeremiah 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.
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Jeremiah 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
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Jeremiah 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
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Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
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Jeremiah 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
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Jeremiah 28:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
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Jeremiah 38:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
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Jeremiah 39:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.
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Jeremiah 41:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
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Jeremiah 41:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
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Jeremiah 42:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
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Jeremiah 46:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!
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Jeremiah 48:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How can you say, ‘We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle’?
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Jeremiah 49:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
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Jeremiah 49:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
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Jeremiah 50:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.
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Jeremiah 50:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 50:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Babylon.
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Jeremiah 51:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
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Jeremiah 51:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
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Jeremiah 52:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
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Jeremiah 52:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
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Ezekiel 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but no one goes to war, for My wrath is upon the whole multitude.
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Ezekiel 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.
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Ezekiel 17:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast horde will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
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Ezekiel 27:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.
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Ezekiel 27:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your wealth, wares, and merchandise, your sailors, captains, and shipwrights, your merchants and all the warriors within you, with all the other people on board, will sink into the heart of the sea on the day of your downfall.
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Ezekiel 32:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
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Ezekiel 39:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And at My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and warriors of every kind,’ declares the Lord GOD.
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Daniel 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
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Daniel 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In his place one will arise who will send out a tax collector for the glory of the kingdom; but within a few days he will be destroyed, though not in anger or in battle.
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Daniel 11:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And with a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South, who will mobilize a very large and powerful army but will not withstand the plots devised against him.
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Hosea 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
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Hosea 2:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and battle in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
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Source alternate reference: 2.20
Hosea 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
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Hosea 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your fortresses will be demolished as Shalman devastated Beth-arbel in the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to pieces along with their children.
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Joel 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
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Joel 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
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Joel 3:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
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Source alternate reference: 4.9
Amos 1:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
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Obadiah 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—
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