Fighting

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

A — 1: Μάχη (Strong'S #3163 — Noun Feminine — mache — makh'-ay )

"a fight, strife" (akin to B, No. 3, under Fight is always used in the plural in the NT, and translated "fightings" in  2—Corinthians 7:5;  James 4:1;  Titus 3:9 , RV (for AV, "strivings"); "strifes in  2—Timothy 2:23 . See Strife.

B — 1: Θεομάχος (Strong'S #2314 — Adjective — theomachos — theh-om'-akh-os )

"fighting against God" (theos, "God," and A, occurs in  Acts 5:39 (AV, "to fight"), lit., "God-fighters."

King James Dictionary

Fighting ppr.

1. Contending in battle striving for victory or conquest. 2. a. Qualified for war fit for battle.

A host of fighting men.  2 Chronicles 26 .

3. Occupied in war being the scene of war as a fighting field.

FIGHTING, n. Contention strife quarrel.

Without were fightings, within were fears.  2 Corinthians 7 .

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fight

(2): ( a.) Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.

(3): ( a.) Qualified for war; fit for battle.