noun · feminine

filoneikias

Greekφιλονεικία (filoneikia)

Strong’sG5379

love of dispute, contention

stem filoneiki-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

dispute1×

What it means

** φιλονεικία, -ας, ἡ

(< φιλόνεικος), [in LXX: II Mac 4:4, IV Mac 1:26 8:26 *;]

love of strife, rivalry, emulation (Plat., al.), but mostly in bad sense (Thuc., al.), contentiousness, contention: Lk 22:24 (but v. Field, Notes, 75 f.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5379 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-on-i-kee'-ah

quarrelsomeness, i.e. a dispute

Fromfrom G5380;

King Jamesstrife.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	filoneikias1×φιλονεικία	filoneikiais
object accusative	filoneikian	filoneikiain
direct address vocative	filoneikiar	filoneikiair
of, belonging to genitive	filoneikiau	filoneikiaiu
to, for dative	filoneikia	filoneikiai

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

filoneikistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filoneikia 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

filoneikias“dispute”subjectnominative singular1×

Luke 22:24“dispute”Gineta de kai filoneikias en autoi, tem tinos autoiu dokatō arō megoteros.A dispute also arose among the disciples as to which of them should be considered the greatest.