μάχας (machas)

μάχας is an Ancient Greek form of μάχη, meaning “battle, fight”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 232 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.55.4: ἀτολμότεροι δὲ δι’ αὐτὸ ἐς τὰς μάχας ἦσαν, καὶ πᾶν ὅτι κινήσειαν ᾤοντο ἁμαρτήσεσθαι διὰ τὸ τὴν γνώμην ἀνεχέγγυον γεγενῆσθαι ἐκ τῆς πρὶν ἀηθείας τοῦ κακοπραγεῖν.

Hesiod, Theogony 228: Ὑσμίνας τε Μάχας τε Φόνους τʼ Ἀνδροκτασίας τε

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 1.153: … Ἀζαοῦος Ἰαδελφᾶς Ἰαδαφᾶς Βαθουῆλος· οὗτοι μὲν Ναχώρου παῖδες γνήσιοι· Ταβαῖος γὰρ καὶ Γάδαμος καὶ Τααῦος καὶ Μαχᾶς ἐκ Ῥούμας παλλακῆς αὐτῷ γεγόνασι. Βαθουήλῳ δὲ τῶν Ναχώρου γνησίων παίδων γίνεται Ῥεβέκκα θυγάτηρ καὶ Λάβανος …

All forms of μάχη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.