Acts 5:17
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
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Acts 28:22
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
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αἵρεσις
haíresis · hah'-ee-res-is
5 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion
Strong's KJV usage: :--heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect.
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Strong's first: Acts 5:17Strong's last: Acts 28:22
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G139
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
G139
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
G139
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
G139
Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
G139
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
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sect
SECT, noun. [Latin Sp. secta; from Latin seco, to cut off, to separate.]
1. A body or number of persons united in tenets, chiefly in philosophy or religion, but constituting a distinct party by holding sentiments different from those of other men. Most sects have originated in a particular person, who taught and propagated some peculiar notions in philosophy or religion, and who is considered to have been its founder. Among the jews, the principal sects were the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. In Greece were the Cynic sect, founded by Antisthenes; and the Academic sect, by Plato. The Academic sect gave birth to the Peripatetic, and a Cynic to the Stoic.
2. A cutting or coin. [Not used.]
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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