Lexical Summary philoneikia: Strife, contentiousness, rivalry Original Word: φιλονεικία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: philoneikia
Pronunciation: fee-lo-nay-KEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (fil-on-i-kee'-ah)
KJV: strife
NASB: dispute
Word Origin: [from G5380 (φιλόνεικος - contentious)]
1. quarrelsomeness, i.e. a dispute Strong's Exhaustive Concordance strife. From philoneikos; quarrelsomeness, i.e. A dispute -- strife. see GREEK philoneikos NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom philoneikosDefinitionlove of strife NASB Translationdispute (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) |
