Words the Bible translates as faction
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ahiresisαἵρεσιςa faction: a rival grouping that forms inside a community when people push their own line
+1 more meaning
- a recognized religious party: a group inside a larger faith, marked out by the teaching and practice it has chosen to hold
- eritheiaἐριθείαselfish ambition: a self-seeking drive to promote oneself and one's own side, which competes for standing at others' expense and splits a group into rival factions
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