Philoneikia means “strife” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5379 — nisseth (“gift”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5379 φιλονεικία (philoneikia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. philoneikia (fil-on-ei-kee'-ah) n. 1. quarrelsomeness, i.e. a dispute [from G5380] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include strife. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
philoneikia (fil-on-ei-kee'-ah) n. 1. quarrelsomeness, i.e. a dispute [from G5380] KJV: strife Root(s): G5380
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5379. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
love of dispute
Usage: φιλονεικία, -ας, ἡ (φιλόνεικος), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:4, 4Ma.1:26 4Mac 8:26 * ;] love of strife, rivalry, emulation (Plat., al.), but mostly in bad sense (Thuc., al.), contentiousness, contention: Luk.22:24 (but see Field, Notes, 75 f.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render philoneikia, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha and New Testament. 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 G5379 (φιλονεικία) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,
In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5379.
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,
In the soul it is arrogance, and love of money, and vaingloriousness, and contention, and faithlessness, and the evil eye.
But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5379, grouped by book.
Philoneikia (Strong's G5379) is a Greek word most simply glossed "strife". philoneikia (fil-on-ei-kee'-ah) n. 1. quarrelsomeness, i.e. a dispute [from G5380]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G5379 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5379 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strife. 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 G5379, with linked reader references where each row is available.