1 Samuel 17:19
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
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Fighting
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Psalms 56:1
<<To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.>> Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
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לָחַם
lâcham · law-kham'
2 times translated as this KJV form177 total Strong's occurrences
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
Strong's KJV usage: devour, eat, × ever, fight(-ing), overcome, prevail, (make) war(-ring).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 17:19Strong's last: Psalms 56:1
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milchâmâh · mil-khaw-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form315 total Strong's occurrences
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. war-fare)
Strong's KJV usage: battle, fight(-ing), war(-rior).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 26:11Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 26:11
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H3898
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
H4421
Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, 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, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
H3898
<<To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.>> Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
English meaning and historical usage.
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fighting
FIGHTING, participle present tense
1. Contending in battle; striving for victory or conquest.
2. adjective Qualified for war; fit for battle.
A host of fighting men. 2 Chronicles 26:11.
3. Occupied in war; being the scene of war; as a fighting field.
FIGHTING, noun Contention; strife; quarrel.
Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Corinthians 7:5.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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