Lexicon philoneikia: love of strife Original Word: φιλονεικία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: philoneikia Phonetic Spelling: (fil-on-i-kee'-ah) Short Definition: love of dispute, contention Definition: love of dispute, contention. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom philoneikosDefinitionlove of strife NASB Translationdispute (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5379: φιλονεικίαφιλονεικία, φιλονεικίας, ἡ ( φιλόνεικος, which see), love of strife, eagerness to contend ( Plato, Plutarch, Lucian, others; 4 Macc. 1:26); contention: Luke 22:24. (2 Macc. 4:4; Thucydides 8, 76; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 4; Antoninus 3, 4; in a good sense, emulation, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch, others.)
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