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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - φιλόνεικος

φιλόνεικος

G5380

Transliteration: philóneikos

Pronunciation: fil-on'-i-kos

Definition: contentious


- Original: φιλόνεικος

- Transliteration: Philoneikos

- Phonetic: fil-on'-i-kos

- Definition:

1. fond of strife, contentious

a. in a good sense, emulous

- Origin: from G5384" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5384 and neikos (a quarrel, probably akin to G3534" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3534)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: From G5384" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5384 and νεῖκος neikos (a quarrel; probably akin to G3534" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3534); fond of strife that is disputatious: - contentious.


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