Lexicon dichostasia: standing apart, dissension Original Word: διχοστασία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: dichostasia Phonetic Spelling: (dee-khos-tas-ee'-ah) Short Definition: division, dissension Definition: division, dissension, standing apart. HELPS word-Studies 1370 dixostasía (from dixa, "separately" and 4714 /stásis, "a standing, stance") – properly, separate-standings ("standing apart"), used of divisions which wrongly separate people into pointless (groundless) factions. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom dichostateó (to stand apart) Definitionstanding apart, dissension NASB Translationdissensions (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1370: διχοστασίαδιχοστασία, διχοστασίας, ἡ ( διχοστατέωto stand apart), dissension, division; plural: Romans 16:17; 1 Corinthians 3:3 ( Rec.); Galatians 5:20. (Occasionally in Greek writings from Solon in Demosthenes, p. 423, 4 and Herodotus 5, 75 on; (1 Macc. 3:29).)
Strong's division, sedition. From a derivative of dis and stasis; disunion, i.e. (figuratively) dissension -- division, sedition. see GREEK dis see GREEK stasis |
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