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H4421מִלְחָמָהmil.cha.mah

battlePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 2
  2. 5
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 12
  5. 18
  6. 18
  7. 20
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 32
  10. 29
  11. 23
  12. 10
  13. 32
  14. 32
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 4
  19. 10
  20. 3
  21. 3
  22. 1
  23. 14
  24. 24
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 7
  27. 3
  28. 4
  29. 4
  30. 1
  31. 1
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 3
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 5
  39. Malachi: 0

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320 occurrences in 309 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 1 Samuel 7:10

    And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel.

    לַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (מִּלְחָמָ֖ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  2. 1 Samuel 8:12

    And he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

    מִלְחַמְתּ֖וֹ (מִלְחַמְתּ֖) mil.cham.T “warfare”

  3. 1 Samuel 8:20

    that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.'

    מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽנוּ׃ (מִלְחֲמֹתֵֽ) mil.cha.mo.Te. “battles”

  4. 1 Samuel 13:15

    And Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal unto Gibeath-benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.

    הַמִּלְחָמָה (מִּלְחָמָה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  5. 1 Samuel 13:22

    So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

    מִלְחֶ֔מֶת mil.Che.met “battle”

  6. 1 Samuel 14:20

    And Saul and all the people that were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

    הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (מִּלְחָמָ֑ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  7. 1 Samuel 14:22

    Likewise all the men of Israel that had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

    בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ (מִּלְחָמָֽה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  8. 1 Samuel 14:23

    So the LORD saved Israel that day; and the battle passed on as far as Beth-aven.

    וְהַ֨מִּלְחָמָ֔ה (מִּלְחָמָ֔ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  9. 1 Samuel 14:52

    And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

    הַמִּלְחָמָה֙ (מִּלְחָמָה֙) mil.cha.Mah “war”

  10. 1 Samuel 16:18

    Then answered one of the young men, and said: 'Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valour, and a man of war, and prudent in affairs, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.'

    מִלְחָמָ֛ה mil.cha.Mah “war”

  11. 1 Samuel 17:1

    Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

    לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (מִּלְחָמָ֔ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  12. 1 Samuel 17:2

    And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

    מִלְחָמָ֖ה mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  13. 1 Samuel 17:8

    And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them: 'Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

    מִלְחָמָ֑ה mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  14. 1 Samuel 17:13

    And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

    לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (מִּלְחָמָ֑ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (מִּלְחָמָ֔ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  15. 1 Samuel 17:20

    And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the barricade, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

    בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ (מִּלְחָמָֽה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  16. 1 Samuel 17:28

    And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said: 'Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy presumptuousness, and the naughti

    הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (מִּלְחָמָ֖ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  17. 1 Samuel 17:33

    And Saul said to David: 'Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.'

    מִלְחָמָ֖ה mil.cha.Mah “war”

  18. 1 Samuel 17:47

    and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD'S, and He will give you into our hand.'

    הַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (מִּלְחָמָ֔ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  19. 1 Samuel 18:5

    And David went out; whithersoever Saul sent him, he had good success; and Saul set him over the men of war; and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

    הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (מִּלְחָמָ֑ה) mil.cha.Mah “war”

  20. 1 Samuel 18:17

    And Saul said to David: 'Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles.' For Saul said: 'Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'

    מִלְחֲמ֣וֹת mil.cha.Mot “[the] battles of”

  21. 1 Samuel 19:8

    And there was war again; and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

    הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה (מִּלְחָמָ֖ה) mil.cha.Mah “war”

  22. 1 Samuel 23:8

    And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

    לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (מִּלְחָמָ֑ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  23. 1 Samuel 25:28

    Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid; for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD; and evil is not found in thee all thy days.

    מִלְחֲמ֤וֹת mil.cha.Mot “[the] battles of”

  24. 1 Samuel 26:10

    And David said: 'As the LORD liveth, nay, but the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle, and be swept away.

    בַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה (מִּלְחָמָ֛ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”

  25. 1 Samuel 29:4

    But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him: 'Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle

    בַּמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (מִּלְחָמָ֔ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”בַּמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (מִּלְחָמָ֑ה) mil.cha.Mah “battle”