Controversy

Usually translated “controversy”, “controversies” and “debate”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• controversy 2
• controversies 2
• a debate 1
• inquiry 1
• speculations 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 3
• John 1
• 1 Timothy 1
• 2 Timothy 1
• Titus 1

5 books in all.

• Titus 3:9In contextBut avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• John 3:25Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
• Acts 15:2When 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.
• Acts 15:7And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
• Acts 25:20And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
• 2 Timothy 2:23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “controversy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.