King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5379
Transliteration: philoneikia
Phonetic Spelling: (fil-on-i-kee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: love of strife
Meaning: love of strife
φιλονεικία, 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.)
Word Summary
philoneikia: love of strife
Original Word: φιλονεικίαTransliteration: philoneikia
Phonetic Spelling: (fil-on-i-kee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: love of strife
Meaning: love of strife
Strong's Concordance
strife. From philoneikos; quarrelsomeness, i.e. A dispute -- strife.
see GREEK philoneikos
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.)