Strong's #2052: eritheia (pronounced er-ith-i'-ah)

perhaps as the same as 2042; properly, intrigue, i.e. (by implication) faction:--contention(-ious), strife.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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eritheia

1) electioneering or intriguing for office

1a) apparently, in the NT a courting distinction, a desire to put one' s self forward, a partisan and fractious spirit which does not disdain low arts

1b) partisanship, fractiousness

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: perhaps as the same as G2042

Citing in TDNT: 2:660, 256

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Romans 2:8: "But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth,"
2 Corinthians 12:20: "there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:"
Galatians 5:20: "variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,"
Philippians 1:16: "The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing"
Philippians 2:3: "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other"
James 3:14: "bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory"
James 3:16: "where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every"