A question/dispute
ζήτημαStrong’s G2213zētēma
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Zētēma is the Greek word usually translated “questions”, “question” and “controversies”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.”
Meaning
Usually translated “questions”, “question” and “controversies”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- questions 3
- question 1
- controversies 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 18:15But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
- Acts 23:29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
- Acts 25:19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
- Acts 26:3Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
Greek dictionary
ζήτημα zētēma · a question/dispute
ζήτημα, -τος, τό (ζητέω), [in LXX: ζ. τίθεσθαι (דָּרַשׁ ni.), Eze.36:37 A * ;] an inquiry, question: Act.15:2 18:15 23:29 25:19 26:3.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “question” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUESTION, noun
ques'chun. [Latin quaestio. See Quest.]
- The act of asking; an interrogatory; as, to examine by question and answer.
- That which is asked; something proposed which is to be solved by answer.
- Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.
- Dispute or subject of debate.“There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, about purifying” John 3:25
All definitions and other forms of “question”
- Doubt; controversy; dispute.
- Trial; examination; judicial trial or inquiry.“Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question” Acts 23:6
- Examination by torture.
- Endeavor; effort; act of seeking. [Not in use.]
- In logic, a proposition stated by way of interrogation.
QUES'TION, verb intransitive
- To ask a question or questions; to inquire by interrogatory or proposition to be answered.
- To debate by interrogatories.
QUES'TION, verb transitive
- To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
- To doubt of; to be uncertain of.
- To have no confidence in; to treat as doubtful.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.