Lexicon philoneikos: fond of strife Original Word: φιλόνεικος, ονPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: philoneikos Phonetic Spelling: (fil-on'-i-kos) Short Definition: strife-loving, contentious Definition: strife-loving, contentious. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom philos and neikos (strife) Definitionfond of strife NASB Translationcontentious (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5380: φιλόνεικοςφιλόνεικος, φιλονεικον ( φίλος, and νεῖκος strife), fond of strife, contentious: 1 Corinthians 11:16. ( Pindar, Plato, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch, others; in a good sense, emulous, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, others.)
Strong's contentious. From philos and neikos (a quarrel; probably akin to nikos); fond of strife, i.e. Disputatious -- contentious. see GREEK philos see GREEK nikos |
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