Strong's Concordance philoneikia: love of strife Original Word: φιλονεικία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: philoneikia Phonetic Spelling: (fil-on-i-kee'-ah) Short Definition: love of dispute, contention Definition: love of dispute, contention. 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.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance strife. From philoneikos; quarrelsomeness, i.e. A dispute -- strife. see GREEK philoneikos Forms and Transliterations φιλονεικια φιλονεικία philoneikia philoneikíaLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 53791 Occurrence φιλονεικία — 1 Occ. Luke 22:24 N-NFS GRK: δὲ καὶ φιλονεικία ἐν αὐτοῖς NAS: also a dispute among KJV: there was also a strife among them, INT: moreover also a dispute among them |