adjective

filoneikos

Greekφιλόνεικος (filoneikos)

Strong’sG5380

strife-loving, contentious

stem filoneik-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

contentious1×

What it means

φιλό-νεικος, -ον

(< νεῖκος, strife) [in LXX: Ez 3:7 (מֵצַח־חָזָק)*;]

fond of strife, contentious: I Co 11:16.†

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

Strong’s G5380 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidfil-on'-i-kos

probably akin to G3534); fond of strife, i.e. disputatious

Fromfrom G5384 and νεῖκος (a quarrel;

King Jamescontentious.

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	filoneikos1×φιλόνεικος	filoneikas	filoneikem	filoneikois	filoneikais	filoneikeim
object accusative	filoneikon	filoneikan		filoneikoin	filoneikain
direct address vocative	filoneikor	filoneikar		filoneikoir	filoneikair
of, belonging to genitive	filoneikou	filoneikau	filoneikeu	filoneikoiu	filoneikaiu	filoneikeiu
to, for dative	filoneiko	filoneika	filoneike	filoneikoi	filoneikai	filoneikei

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

filoneikstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

filoneik 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

filoneikos“contentious”subjectnominative singular1×

1 Corinthians 11:16“contentious”ei de tinos dokatō filoneikos arō, nis toioutan sunētheian ouk echanō, oude tais ekklēsais tou theou.If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.