Proverbs 18:18
The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
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Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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מִדְיָן
midyân · mid-yawn'
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: brawling, contention(-ous).
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Strong's first: Proverbs 18:18Strong's last: Proverbs 23:29
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éris · er'-is
2 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a quarrel, i.e. (by implication) wrangling
Strong's KJV usage: :--contention, debate, strife, variance.
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Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 1:11Strong's last: Titus 3:9
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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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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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