- ἐριθεία
- ambition, rivalry
- (the seeking of followers and adherents by means of gifts, the seeking of followers, hence) ambition, rivalry, self-seeking; a feud, faction.
- ἐριθεία
- rivalry
- G:N-F
- ἐριθία
(T, cl., -εία), -ας, ἡ, [in Sm.: Eze.23:11 * ;] (on the origin and history of the word, see Hort, Ja., 81 fly.; Ellic. on Gal.5:20; Cremer, 262)
ambition, self-seeking, rivalry:; κατ᾽ ἐριθίαν, Php.2:3; οἱ ἐξ ἐ.,Refs
Jas.3:14, 16; pl. (Bl., § 32, 6; WM, 220; Swete, Mk., 153),Refs
Rom.2:8, Php.1:17.†Refs
2Co.12:20, Gal.5:20
(AS)
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
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
ἐριθεία
eritheia
er-ith-i'-ah
Perhaps from the same as G2042; properly intrigue, that is, (by implication) faction
KJV Usage: contention (-ious), strife.