Proverbs 13:10
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
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Contention
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1 Thessalonians 2:2
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
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מָדוֹן
mâdôwn · maw-dohn'
3 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a contest or quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare 4079, 4090.
Strong's first: Proverbs 22:10Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:3
Open full H4066 profile →רִיב
rîyb · reeb
2 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
a contest (personal or legal)
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 17:14Strong's last: Proverbs 18:6
Open full H7379 profile →ἀγών
agṓn · ag-one'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a place of assembly (as if led), i.e. (by implication) a contest (held there); figuratively, an effort or anxiety
Strong's KJV usage: :--conflict, contention, fight, race.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 2:2Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 2:2
Open full G73 profile →ἐριθεία
eritheía · er-ith-i'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, intrigue, i.e. (by implication) faction
Strong's KJV usage: :--contention(-ious), strife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Philippians 1:16Strong's last: Philippians 1:16
Open full G2052 profile →παροξυσμός
paroxysmós · par-ox-oos-mos'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
incitement (to good), or dispute (in anger)
Strong's KJV usage: :--contention, provoke unto.
Strong's first: Acts 15:39Strong's last: Acts 15:39
Open full G3948 profile →מַצָּה
matstsâh · mats-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: contention, debate, strife.
Strong's first: Proverbs 13:10Strong's last: Proverbs 13:10
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H4683
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
H7379
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
H7379
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
H4066
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
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contention
CONTENTION, noun [Latin See Contend.]
1. Strife; struggle; a violent effort to obtain something, or to resist a person, claim or injury; contest; quarrel.
Multitudes lost their lives in a tumult raised by contention among the partizans of the several colors.
2. Strife in words or debate; quarrel; angry contest; controversy.
Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law. Titus 3:9.
A fools lips enter into contention Proverbs 18:6.
3. Strife or endeavor to excel; emulation.
4. Eagerness; zeal; ardor; vehemence of endeavor.
This is an end worthy of our utmost contention to obtain.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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