διαμάχομαι
diamáchomai · G1264 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to protest strongly, to contend with
To fight or contend with, involving severity and thoroughness
ExamplesActs 23:9 And a great uproar occurred; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and started arguing heatedly, saying, “We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γραμματεύςscribe, expert in the Law 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐρίζω erízō · G2051 · to argue, quarrel, dispute
- Greek verb for contentious disputing; closely parallel to διαμάχομαι in denoting verbal strife, though without the dia- prefix intensification
Contrasting words 2 words
- εἰρηνεύω eirēneúō · G1514 · to behave peacefully, to live in peace
- Greek verb for making or keeping peace; direct lexical opposite to fighting fiercely in altercation
- συμφωνέω symphōnéō · G4856 · to agree with, agreement, to be like
- Greek verb for agreeing or harmonizing; lexical opposite of contentious disputing
In the other Testament 1 word
- רִיב rîyb · H7378 · to quarrel, to contend, to accuse
- Hebrew verb for legal or verbal contention, closely matching the altercation sense of διαμάχομαι; both denote intense dispute rather than physical combat
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To protest strongly, to contend with39.27
- Used of a sharp verbal conflict breaking out between factions, as of the great uproar and violent arguing that erupts among the scribes of the Pharisaic party over Paul in Acts 23:9.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : imperfect διεμαχομην; to fight it out; contend fiercely: of disputants, Acts 23:9.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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