39. WAR. FIGHTING
39. WAR. FIGHTING
The words and are translated ‘fight,’ or ‘fighting.’ They both occur in Jam 4:1; “From whence come wars (.) and fightings (.)?” and in the next verse occur the verbs to which these words belong: “Ye fight () and war ().” These passages show the distinction between the words, and they may be said to correspond to the English words ‘war’ (), and actual fighting (, compare the Hebrew makkah, slaughter), though the war may be moral, and the fighting be by word of mouth, as “strifes of words” (), 1Ti 6:4, and the “strivings (.) about the law,” Tit 3:9. Besides the above quoted passages the word occurs only in 2Co 7:5; 2Ti 2:23
is found nine times in the Revelation: in Rev 9:7; Rev 9:9; Rev 16:14; Rev 20:8, it is in the A.V. translated ‘battle;’ and in Rev 11:7; Rev 12:7; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:7; Rev 19:19, it is ‘war.’ It would be more correct to render it ‘war’ in all the places, while is rather the actual shock of ‘battle.’