H4421 Definition

Strong's number
H4421
Lemma
מִלְחָמָה
Transliteration
milchâmâh
Pronunciation
mil-khaw-maw'
Strong's definition
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare) battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior). from H3898 (לָחַם) (in the sense of fighting);

302 instances of the word מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh (H4421)


  • Deuteronomy 20:20 - Only the trees which thou knowest Only the trees for meat thou shalt destroy and cut them down and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee until it be subdued

  • Judges 20:20 - went out And the men of Israel to battle against Benjamin put themselves in array And the men of Israel to battle against them at Gibeah

  • Judges 20:22 - encouraged And the people the men of Israel again in array themselves and set their battle in the place in array day the first

  • Judges 20:23 - Go up And the children of Israel and wept before And the LORD until even and asked And the LORD said again Shall I go up to battle And the children of Benjamin my brother said And the LORD Go up

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

  • Judges 20:28 - And Phinehas against the children of Eleazar against the children of Aaron stood before it in those days said Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother or shall I cease said And the LORD Go up for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand

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

  • Judges 20:34 - And there came against Gibeah ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel and the battle was sore but they knew was near not that evil

  • 1 Kings 20:39 - And as the king passed by he cried And as the king and he said Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle a man turned aside and brought a man and he said Keep a man he be missing he be missing be for his life be for his life a talent of silver or else thou shalt pay

  • Judges 20:39 - retired And when the men of Israel battle Benjamin began to smite and kill And when the men of Israel about thirty And when the men for they said Surely Surely before battle us as in the first

  • Judges 20:42 - Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness but the battle overtook them and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst

  • Jeremiah 21:4 - Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Behold I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans which besiege you without the walls and I will assemble them into the midst of this city

  • Deuteronomy 21:10 - When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies hath delivered and the LORD thy God them into thine hands and thou hast taken and thou hast taken

  • 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

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

  • Isaiah 21:15 - and from sword For they fled and from sword the drawn and from bow the bent and from the grievousness of war

  • 2 Samuel 21:17 - succoured But Abishai the son of Zeruiah him and smote the Philistine and killed sware of David unto him saying Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle 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 at Gob with the Philistines slew then Sibbechai the Hushathite Saph which was of the sons of the giant

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

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

  • Judges 21:22 - come And it shall be when their fathers or their brethren unto us to complain that we will say unto them Be favourable unto them for our sakes because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war for ye did not give unto them at this time that ye should be guilty

  • Proverbs 21:31 - The horse is prepared against the day of battle is of the LORD but safety

  • Numbers 21:33 - And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan went out and Og the king of Bashan against them he and all his people to the battle at Edrei

  • Isaiah 22:2 - of stirs city a tumultuous city a joyous men are not slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battle

  • 2 Chronicles 22:5 - also after their counsel He walked He walked with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead smote and the Syrians Joram

  • 1 Chronicles 22:8 - But the word of the LORD came to me saying blood abundantly Thou hast shed wars great and hast made thou shalt not build an house unto my name blood much Thou hast shed upon the earth in my sight

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

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

  • 1 Samuel 23:8 - called And Saul all the people to war to go down to Keilah to besiege David

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

  • Proverbs 24:6 - For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war there is safety and in multitude of counsellors

  • Psalms 24:8 - Who is this King of glory The LORD strong and mighty The LORD and mighty in battle

  • 2 Kings 24:16 - And all the men of might even seven a thousand and craftsmen and smiths a thousand all that were strong and apt for war brought even them the king of Babylon captive of Babylon

  • 2 Kings 25:4 - was broken up And the city of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls garden which is by the king's now the Chaldees And the city round about by the way toward the plain

  • 2 Chronicles 25:8 - But if thou wilt go do it be strong for the battle and to cast down God before the enemy hath power God to help and to cast down

  • 2 Chronicles 25:13 - But the soldiers of the army sent back which Amaziah that they should not go with him to battle fell upon the cities of Judah from Samaria even unto Bethhoron and smote three thousand of them and took spoil much

  • 2 Kings 25:19 - And out of the city he took officer an that was set men of war and five men of them that were presence in the king's that were found And out of the city scribe and the principal of the host which mustered of the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found And out of the city

  • 1 Samuel 25:28 - I pray thee forgive the trespass of thine handmaid make make for the LORD because my lord house a sure the battles for the LORD because my lord fighteth and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days

  • 1 Samuel 26:10 - said David liveth furthermore As the LORD furthermore As the LORD shall smite him or his day shall come to die into battle or he shall descend and perish

  • 2 Chronicles 26:11 - Moreover Uzziah had an host men of fighting that went out to war by bands according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler by the hand of Hananiah captains one of the king's

  • 2 Chronicles 26:13 - And under their hand was an army three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred that made war power was an army to help the king against the enemy

  • 1 Chronicles 26:27 - won in battles Out of the spoils did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD

  • Psalms 27:3 - should encamp Though an host shall not fear against me my heart should rise though war against me in this will I be confident

  • Isaiah 27:4 - Fury is not in me who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle I would go through them I would burn them together

  • 2 Chronicles 27:7 - Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all his wars and his ways lo they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah

  • Ezekiel 27:10 - They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army of war the shield and helmet they hanged in thee they set forth thy comeliness

  • Ezekiel 27:27 - Thy riches and thy fairs of thy merchandise thy mariners and thy pilots thy calkers and the occupiers of thy merchandise of war that are in thee and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin

  • 1 Chronicles 28:3 - But God said unto me Thou shalt not build an house for my name because thou hast been a man of war blood and hast shed

  • Isaiah 28:6 - And for a spirit in judgment to him that sitteth in judgment and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate

  • Jeremiah 28:8 - The prophets me and before me and before thee of old prophesied countries both against many kingdoms and against great of war and of evil and of pestilence

  • 1 Samuel 29:4 - were wroth And the princes of the Philistines said And the princes of the Philistines return this fellow return to his place which thou hast appointed him and let him not go down lest in the battle he be an adversary lest in the battle to us for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master should it not be with the heads of these men

  • Deuteronomy 29:7 - And when ye came unto this place came out Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan against us unto battle and we smote

  • 1 Samuel 29:9 - answered And Achish and said to David I know that thou art good in my sight as an angel of God notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines and said He shall not go up with us to the battle

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

  • Isaiah 30:32 - And in every place shall pass staff where the grounded shall lay which the LORD upon him it shall be with tabrets and harps and in battles of shaking will he fight

  • 1 Samuel 31:3 - went sore And the battle against Saul hit and the archers wounded him and he was sore and the archers

  • Numbers 31:14 - was wroth And Moses with the officers of the host and captains over thousands and captains over hundreds which came from the battle

  • Numbers 31:21 - said And Eleazar the priest unto the men of war which went to the battle This is the ordinance of the law commanded which the LORD Moses

  • Numbers 31:27 - And divide the prey 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 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 not one man of war which are under our charge and there lacketh not one man

  • 2 Chronicles 32:2 - saw And when Hezekiah was come that Sennacherib and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 32:6 - And he set captains of war over the people and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city and spake comfortably to them saying

  • Numbers 32:6 - said And Moses and to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben Shall your brethren go to war and shall ye sit

  • 2 Chronicles 32:8 - With him is an arm of flesh but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles rested And the people themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah

  • Exodus 32:17 - heard And when Joshua There is a noise of the people as they shouted he said unto Moses There is a noise of war in the camp

  • Numbers 32:20 - said And Moses unto them If ye will do this thing if ye will go armed before the LORD to war

  • Ezekiel 32:27 - And they shall not lie of the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war and they have laid their swords under their heads but their iniquities shall be upon their bones though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living

  • 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 - said And Moses will pass with you over and the children of Gad and the children of Reuben Jordan every man armed to battle before the LORD shall be subdued and the land before you then ye shall give and the land of Gilead for a possession

  • 2 Chronicles 35:21 - But he sent ambassadors commanded What have I to do with thee thou king of Judah I come not against thee this day but against the house wherewith I have war for God commanded me to make haste forbear for God who is with me that he destroy

  • Isaiah 36:5 - I say words sayest thou (but they are but vain I have counsel and strength for war now on whom dost thou trust that thou rebellest

  • Jeremiah 38:4 - said Therefore the princes unto the king be put to death We beseech thee let this man for thus he weakeneth and the hands We beseech thee let this man of war that remain in this city and the hands of all the people in speaking such words We beseech thee let this man seeketh not the welfare of all the people but the hurt

  • Job 38:23 - Which I have reserved against the time of trouble against the day of battle and war

  • Jeremiah 39:4 - saw And it came to pass that when Zedekiah of the king's of Judah them and all the men of war then they fled and he went out by night out of the city by the way garden of the king's by the gate betwixt the two walls and he went out by the way of the plain

  • Ezekiel 39:20 - Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots with mighty men and with all men of war saith the Lord GOD

  • Job 39:25 - among the trumpets He saith Ha afar off and he smelleth the battle the thunder of the captains and the shouting

  • Jeremiah 41:3 - all the Jews that were with him even with Gedaliah at Mizpah and the Chaldeans that were found there and the men of war also slew Ishmael

  • Job 41:8 - Lay thine hand upon him remember the battle do no more

  • Isaiah 41:12 - Thou shalt seek them and shalt not find that contended against thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nought with thee they that war

  • Jeremiah 41:16 - Then took Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him all the remnant of the people whom he had brought again from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah from Mizpah after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam even mighty of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs whom he had brought again from Gibeon

  • Isaiah 42:13 - The LORD as a mighty man shall go forth like a man of war he shall stir up jealousy he shall cry yea roar against his enemies he shall prevail

  • Jeremiah 42:14 - Saying into the land of Egypt No but we will go where we shall see no war the sound of the trumpet nor hear of bread nor have hunger and there will we dwell

  • Isaiah 42:25 - Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger and the strength of battle and it hath set him on fire round about yet he knew not and it burned him yet he laid it not to heart

  • Jeremiah 46:3 - Order ye the buckler and shield and draw near to battle

  • Psalms 46:9 - to cease He maketh wars unto the end of the earth the bow he breaketh and cutteth the spear the chariot he burneth in the fire

  • Jeremiah 48:14 - How say ye We are mighty men and strong for the war

  • Jeremiah 49:2 - Therefore behold the days come saith the LORD to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites that I will cause an alarm of war heap and it shall be a desolate and her daughters with fire shall be burned be heir then shall Israel be heir saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 49:14 - a rumour I have heard from the LORD and an ambassador unto the heathen is sent saying Gather ye together and come against her and rise up to the battle

  • Jeremiah 49:26 - shall fall Therefore her young men in her streets of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD of hosts

  • Jeremiah 50:22 - A sound of battle is in the land destruction and of great

  • Jeremiah 50:30 - fall Therefore shall her young men in the streets of war shall be cut off in that day saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 50:42 - the bow and the lance They shall hold they are cruel and will not shew mercy their voice like the sea shall roar upon horses and they shall ride every one put in array like a man to the battle against thee O daughter of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 51:20 - Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms

  • Jeremiah 51:32 - And that the passages are stopped and the reeds they have burned with fire of war are affrighted

  • Jeremiah 52:7 - was broken up Then the city of war fled and went forth Then the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls garden which was by the king's now the Chaldeans Then the city round about by the way of the plain

  • Jeremiah 52:25 - also out of the city He took eunuch an which had the charge men of war and seven men of them that were near person the king's that were found also out of the city scribe and the principal of the host who mustered of the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the midst also out of the city

  • Psalms 76:3 - There brake he the arrows of the bow the shield and the sword and the battle Selah

  • Psalms 89:43 - Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battle

  • Psalms 120:7 - I am for peace but when I speak they are for war