G2052 – eritheia – ἐριθεία – contention(-ious), strife
- Strong’s ID:
- G2052
- Greek Word:
- ἐριθεία
- Transliteration:
- eritheia
- Pronunciation:
- er-ith-i’-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun feminine
- Usage Count:
- 7
- Search:
- Find “eritheia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
perhaps as the same as G2042; properly, intrigue, i.e. (by implication) faction:—contention(-ious), strife.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) electioneering or intriguing for office
1a) apparently, in the NT a courting distinction, a desire to put one’s self forward, a partisan and fractious spirit which does not disdain low arts
1b) partisanship, fractiousness
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.