מִלְחָמָה

mil.cha.mah

Hebrew H4421 Noun, feminine 319 occurrences in 308 verses

מִלְחָמָה battle

battle, war

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Concordance 308 verses

Joshua 11:20 הַמִּלְחָמָ֤ה

For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Joshua 11:23 מִמִּלְחָמָֽה׃פ

So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
Joshua 14:11 לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.
Joshua 14:15 מִמִּלְחָמָֽה׃פ

(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.
Joshua 17:1 מִלְחָמָ֔ה

Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.
Judges 3:1 מִלְחֲמ֥וֹת

These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Judges 3:2 מִלְחָמָ֑ה

if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:
Judges 3:10 לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה

The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.
Judges 8:13 הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה

After this, Gideon son of Joash returned from the battle along the Ascent of Heres.
Judges 18:11 מִלְחָמָֽה׃

So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
Judges 18:16 מִלְחַמְתָּ֔ם

The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
Judges 18:17 הַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
Judges 20:14 לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
Judges 20:17 מִלְחָמָֽה׃

The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
Judges 20:18 לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
Judges 20:20 לַמִּלְחָמָ֖המִלְחָמָ֖ה

And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
Judges 20:22 מִלְחָמָ֔ה

But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
Judges 20:23 לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה

They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
Judges 20:28 לַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
Judges 20:34 וְהַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
Judges 20:39 בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑הכַּמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
Judges 20:42 וְהַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
Judges 21:22 בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה

When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
1 Samuel 4:1 לַמִּלְחָמָ֗ה

Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
1 Samuel 4:2 הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה

The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
1 Samuel 7:10 לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.
1 Samuel 8:12 מִלְחַמְתּ֖וֹ

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
1 Samuel 8:20 מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃

Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
1 Samuel 13:22 מִלְחֶ֔מֶת

So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.
1 Samuel 14:20 הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה

Then Saul and all his troops assembled and marched to the battle, and they found the Philistines in total confusion, with each man wielding the sword against his neighbor.
1 Samuel 14:22 בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.
1 Samuel 14:23 וְהַ֨מִּלְחָמָ֔ה

So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 14:52 הַמִּלְחָמָה֙

And the war with the Philistines was fierce for all the days of Saul. So whenever he noticed any strong or brave man, Saul would enlist him.
1 Samuel 16:18 מִלְחָמָ֛ה

One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him.”
1 Samuel 17:1 לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה

Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war at Socoh in Judah, and they camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim.
1 Samuel 17:2 מִלְחָמָ֖ה

Saul and the men of Israel assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah, arraying themselves for battle against the Philistines.
1 Samuel 17:8 מִלְחָמָ֑ה

And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
1 Samuel 17:13 לַמִּלְחָמָ֑הבַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה

The three older sons of Jesse had followed Saul into battle: The firstborn was Eliab, the second was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.
1 Samuel 17:20 בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
1 Samuel 17:28 הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
1 Samuel 17:33 מִלְחָמָ֖ה

But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
1 Samuel 17:47 הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה

And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give all of you into our hands.”
1 Samuel 18:5 הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה

So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.
1 Samuel 18:17 מִלְחֲמ֣וֹת

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
1 Samuel 19:8 הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה

When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.
1 Samuel 23:8 לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה

Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.
1 Samuel 25:28 מִלְחֲמ֤וֹת

Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
1 Samuel 26:10 בַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה

David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
1 Samuel 29:4 בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔הבַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה

But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
1 Samuel 29:9 בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃

Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’