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| 1 | Strong's Number: g2054 | Greek: eris |
Contention, Contentious:
"strife, quarrel," especially "rivalry, contention, wrangling," as in the church in Corinth, 1Cr 1:11, is translated "contentions" in Tts 3:9, AV.
See DEBATE, STRIFE, VARIANCE.
| 2 | Strong's Number: g3948 | Greek: paroxusmos |
Contention, Contentious:
(Eng., "paroxysm"), lit., "a sharpening," hence "a sharpening of the feeling, or action" (para, "beside," intensive, oxus, "sharp"), denotes an incitement, a sharp contention, Act 15:39, the effect of irritation; elsewhere in Hbr 10:24, "provoke," unto love.
See PROVOKE.
| 3 | Strong's Number: g5379 | Greek: philoneikia |
Contention, Contentious:
lit., "love of strife" (phileo, "to love," neikos, "strife"), signifies "eagerness to contend;" hence, a "contention," said of the disciples, Luk 22:24. Cp. B, 2.
| 4 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g269 | Greek: amachos |
Contention, Contentious:
lit., "not fighting" (a, negative, mache, "a fight, combat, quarrel"), primarily signifying "invincible," came to mean "not contentious," 1Ti 3:3, RV; Tts 3:2 (AV, "not a brawler," "no brawlers").
| 5 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g5380 | Greek: philoneikos |
Contention, Contentious:
akin to A, No. 3, is used in 1Cr 11:16. In the Sept., Eze 3:7, "stubborn."
Notes:
(1) Eritheia, "contention," AV, in Phl 1:17, is translated "faction," in the RV. The phrase hoi ex eritheias, Rom 2:8, lit., "those of strife," is rendered "contentious," in the AV; RV, "factious."
See FACTIOUS, STRIFE.
(2) For agon, "a contest," "contention," 1Th 2:2, AV; "conflict," RV, see CONFLICT.
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