Strong's Concordance H4421

Original Word: מִלְחָמָה
Transliteration: milchâmâh
Phonetic Spelling: mil-khaw-maw'
from H3898 (in the sense of fighting); a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. war-fare); battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).

Usages throughout the bible

1 Samuel 30:24 - For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, H4421 so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

1 Samuel 31:3 - And the battle H4421 went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

2 Samuel 1:4 - And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, H4421 and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

2 Samuel 1:25 - How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! H4421 O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

2 Samuel 1:27 - How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war H4421 perished!

2 Samuel 2:17 - And there was a very sore battle H4421 that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

2 Samuel 3:1 - Now there was long war H4421 between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

2 Samuel 3:6 - And it came to pass, while there was war H4421 between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

2 Samuel 3:30 - So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle. H4421

2 Samuel 10:8 - And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle H4421 in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

2 Samuel 10:9 - When Joab saw that the front of the battle H4421 was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:

2 Samuel 10:13 - And Joab drew nigh, and the people that were with him, unto the battle H4421 against the Syrians: and they fled before him.

2 Samuel 11:7 - And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war H4421 prospered.

2 Samuel 11:15 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, H4421 and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.

2 Samuel 11:18 - Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war; H4421

2 Samuel 11:19 - And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war H4421 unto the king,

2 Samuel 11:25 - Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle H4421 more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

2 Samuel 17:8 - For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, H4421 and will not lodge with the people.

2 Samuel 18:6 - So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle H4421 was in the wood of Ephraim;

2 Samuel 18:8 - For the battle H4421 was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

2 Samuel 19:3 - And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. H4421

2 Samuel 19:10 - And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. H4421 Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

2 Samuel 21:15 - Moreover the Philistines had yet war H4421 again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

2 Samuel 21:17 - But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, H4421 that thou quench not the light of Israel.

2 Samuel 21:18 - And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle H4421 with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.

2 Samuel 21:19 - And there was again a battle H4421 in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

2 Samuel 21:20 - And there was yet a battle H4421 in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

2 Samuel 22:35 - He teacheth my hands to war; H4421 so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

2 Samuel 22:40 - For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: H4421 them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

2 Samuel 23:9 - And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, H4421 and the men of Israel were gone away:

1 Kings 2:5 - Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war H4421 in peace, and put the blood of war H4421 upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

1 Kings 5:3 - Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars H4421 which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.

1 Kings 8:44 - If thy people go out to battle H4421 against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

1 Kings 9:22 - But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, H4421 and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

1 Kings 14:30 - And there was war H4421 between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

1 Kings 15:6 - And there was war H4421 between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

1 Kings 15:7 - Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war H4421 between Abijam and Jeroboam.

1 Kings 15:16 - And there was war H4421 between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 15:32 - And there was war H4421 between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

1 Kings 20:14 - And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? H4421 And he answered, Thou.

1 Kings 20:18 - And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, H4421 take them alive.

1 Kings 20:26 - And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight H4421 against Israel.

1 Kings 20:29 - And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle H4421 was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

1 Kings 20:39 - And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; H4421 and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

2 Kings 3:7 - And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? H4421 And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.

2 Kings 3:26 - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle H4421 was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

2 Kings 8:28 - And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war H4421 against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

2 Kings 13:25 - And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. H4421 Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

2 Kings 14:7 - He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, H4421 and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

2 Kings 16:5 - Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: H4421 and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.