noun · feminine
ekzētēsias
Strong’sG2214
a question, debate, controversy
stem ekzētēsi-once in the New Testament1 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.
*† ἐκ-ζήτησις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἐκζητέω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2214 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddzay'-tay-sis
a searching (properly, the act), i.e. a dispute or its theme
Fromfrom G2212;
King Jamesquestion.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
seeking, search for, κατ᾽ Εὐρώπης ζήτησιν ἐκπλῶσαι Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ βίου τε καὶ γῆς ζ. Refs; ἀνδρὸς κατὰ ζήτησιν in quest of him, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 searching, examining, ζήτησιν ἐποιέετο τῶν νεῶν searched the ships, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 inquiry, investigation, especially of a philosophic nature, Refs 5th c.BC+; ζ. τοῦ μέλλοντος διὰ ὀρνίθων ποιεῖσθαι inquire into the future by augury, Refs 1st c.BC+
4 judicial inquiry, Refs 4th c.BC+, etc.: plural, suits, controversies, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | ekzētēsias | ekzētēsiais |
| object accusative | ekzētēsian | ekzētēsiain1×ἐκζητήσεις |
| direct address vocative | ekzētēsiar | ekzētēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ekzētēsiau | ekzētēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | ekzētēsia | ekzētēsiai |
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
ekzētēsia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
ekzētēsiain“speculations”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Timothy 1:4“speculations”… prosecharō muthoi kai genealogiai aperantai, hotinais ekzētēsiain parechalō mallon ē oikonomian theou tan …… themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by …