Eris means “quarrel” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2054 — vazar (“crime”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2054 ἔρις (eris) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eris (er'-is) n. 1. a quarrel 2. (by implication) wrangling It has 12 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include strife, contentions, and debate. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
eris (er'-is) n. 1. a quarrel 2. (by implication) wrangling [of uncertain affinity] KJV: contention, debate, strife, variance
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2054. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
quarrel
Usage: ἔρις, -ιδος accusative, ἔριν (on the declension, see B1., § 8, 3; WH, App., 157), ἡ, [in LXX: Psa.139:20, Sir.28:11 40:5, 9 * ;] strife, wrangling, contention: Rom.1:29 13:13, 1Co.3:3, 2Co.12:20, Gal.5:20, Php.1:15, 1Ti.6:4, Tit.3:9; pl. (see: ἐριθία), Rom.13:13, WH, mg., 1Co.1:11, Ga, l.with, WH, mg.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eris, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2054 (ἔρις) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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9 indexed usages in New Testament.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
A hasty contention kindleth a fire: And a hasty fighting sheddeth blood.
From him that weareth purple and a crown, Unto him that is clothed with a linen frock.
Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, Calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2054.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
A hasty contention kindleth a fire: And a hasty fighting sheddeth blood.
From him that weareth purple and a crown, Unto him that is clothed with a linen frock.
Death, and bloodshed, strife, and sword, Calamities, famine, tribulation, and the scourge;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2054, grouped by book.
Eris (Strong's G2054) is a Greek word most simply glossed "quarrel". eris (er'-is) n. 1. a quarrel 2. (by implication) wrangling
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G2054 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2054 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strife, contentions, and debate. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2054, with linked reader references where each row is available.