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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Fight of Faith
Thompson Chain Reference
• Fighting Against God
• Fight of Faith
Dictionaries
King James Dictionary
• Fighting
• Fight
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• War, Fighting
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Quakers, Fighting
• O God, of Those That Fought Thy Fight
• Fighting Quakers
•   (only first 3 shown)
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Fighting
• Fight
• Fight
Wilson's Bible Types
• Fight
Webster Dictionary
• Sea Fight
• Fighting
• Fight
•   (only first 3 shown)
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bull-Fighting
• Cock-Fighting
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Beast-Fight
• Fight
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Fight
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Spanish Bull-Fight
Lexicons
• ܟ݁ܳܬ݂ܶܫ
• ܩܪܶܒ݂
• ܩܳܪܒ݁ܳܐ
• ἀγών
• ἀγωνίζομαι
• ἄθλησις
•   (only first 3 shown)
• לָחַם , לָחַם
• מַחֲנֶה
• מִלְחָמָה
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"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.

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