STRONGS G5379:
φιλονεικία,
φιλονεικίας,
ἡ (
φιλόνεικος, which see),
love of strife, eagerness to contend (
Plato,
Plutarch,
Lucian, others; 4 Macc. 1:26);
contention:
Luke 22:24. (2 Macc. 4:4;
Thucydides 8, 76;
Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 4;
Antoninus 3, 4; in a good sense,
emulation, Xenophon,
Plato,
Demosthenes,
Plutarch, others.)
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