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Love of dispute

φιλονεικίαStrong’s G5379

philoneikia

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Philoneikia is the Greek word usually translated “dispute”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.”
Luke 22:24 KJV
Meaning

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

How it's translated
  • a dispute 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    φιλονεικία philoneikia · love of dispute

    φιλονεικία, -ας, ἡ (φιλόνεικος), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:4, 4Ma.1:26 4Mac 8:26 * ;] love of strife, rivalry, emulation (Plat., al.), but mostly in bad sense (Thuc., al.), contentiousness, contention: Luk.22:24 (but see Field, Notes, 75 f.).† (AS)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    DISPUTE, verb intransitive

    [Latin dispute is radically very similar to debate and discuss, both of which are from beating, driving, agitation.]

    1. To contend in argument; to reason or argue in opposition; to debate; to altercate; and to dispute violently is to wrangle.
    2. To strive or contend in opposition in a competitor; as, we disputed for the prize.
    All definitions and other forms of “dispute”

      DISPUTE, verb transitive

      1. To attempt to disprove by arguments or statements; to attempt to prove to be false, unfounded or erroneous; to controvert; to attempt to overthrow by reasoning.
      2. To strive or contend for, either by words or actions; as, to dispute the honor of the day; to dispute a prize.
      3. To call in question the propriety of; to oppose by reasoning.
      4. To strive to maintain; as, to dispute every inch of ground.

      DISPUTE, noun

      1. Strife or contest in words or by arguments; an attempt to prove and maintain ones own opinions or claims, by arguments or statements, in opposition to the opinions, arguments or claims of another; controversy in words.
      2. The possibility of being controverted; as in the phrase, this is a fact, beyond all dispute

      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.