5379. philoneikia
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philoneikia: love of strife
Original Word: φιλονεικία, ας, ἡ
Part 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 Origin
from philoneikos
Definition
love of strife
NASB Translation
dispute (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 5379: φιλονεικία

φιλονεικία, φιλονεικίας, (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.)



Strong's
strife.

From philoneikos; quarrelsomeness, i.e. A dispute -- strife.

see GREEK philoneikos

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