Word Summary
thymomacheō: to fight desperately
Original Word: θυμομαχέωTransliteration: thymomacheō
Phonetic Spelling: (thoo-mom-akh-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to fight desperately
Meaning: to fight desperately
Strong's Concordance
be highly displeased.
From a presumed compound of thumos and machomai; to be in a furious fight, i.e. (figuratively) to be exasperated -- be highly displeased.
see GREEK thumos
see GREEK machomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2371: θυμομαχέωθυμομαχέω,
θυμομάχω; (
θυμός and
μάχομαι);
to carry on war with great animosity (
Polybius,
Diodorus,
Dionysius Halicarnassus,
Plutarch);
to be very angry, be exasperated (
A. V. highly displeased):
τίνι, with one,
Acts 12:20. Cf.
Kypke, Observations, ii, p. 62f