Words the Bible translates as contention
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- rivרִיבa dispute: a clash between two sides, from a hot quarrel to a formal legal case
- erisἔριςstrife: the open, competitive quarreling that fractures a community
- madonמָדוֹןquarreling: open conflict between people, the kind that gets started, spreads, and has to be shut down.
- midyanמִדְיָןquarrels, always in the plural: bickering that keeps going, and so the settled habit of a person who is always fighting.
- paradiatribēπαραδιατριβήcontentionnot studied yet
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