noun · feminine
dichostasias
Strong’sG1370
division, dissension
stem dichostasi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** διχοστασία, -ας, ἡ
(< διχοστατέω, to stand apart), [in LXX: I Mac 3:29 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1370 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
dissension, Refs 5th c.BC+; sedition, LXX+6th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dichostasias | dichostasiais1×διχοστασίαι |
| object accusative | dichostasian | dichostasiain1×διχοστασίας |
| direct address vocative | dichostasiar | dichostasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dichostasiau | dichostasiaiu |
| to, for dative | dichostasia | dichostasiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dichostasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
dichostasiais“dissensions”subjectnominative plural1×
Galatians 5:20“dissensions”… farmakeias, echthrais, eridas, zēlos, thumois, eritheiais, dichostasiais, hairesiais,idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
dichostasiain“divisions”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 16:17… de vin, adelfoir, skoparō toin tain dichostasiain kai teim skandaleim para tan didachan …… watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to …