Lexicon hairetikos: causing division Original Word: αἱρετικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hairetikos Phonetic Spelling: (hahee-ret-ee-kos') Short Definition: factious Definition: disposed to form sects, sectarian, heretical, factious. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 141 hairetikós (an adjective, derived from 138 /hairéomai, "to choose, have a distinctive opinion") – a factious person, specializing in half-truths and misimpressions "to win others over" to their personal opinion (misguided zeal) – while creating harmful divisions (used only in Tit 3:10). See 139 (hairesis). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom haireóDefinitioncausing division NASB Translationfactious (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 141: αἱρετικόςαἱρετικός, (ή, (see αἱρέω); 1. fitted or able to take or choose a thing; rare in secular authors. 2. schismatic, factious, a follower of false doctrine: Titus 3:10.
Strong's heretic. From the same as hairetizo; a schismatic -- heretic (the Greek word itself). see GREEK hairetizo |
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