Strong's #2214: zetesis (pronounced dzay'-tay-sis)

from 2212; a searching (properly, the act), i.e. a dispute or its theme:--question.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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zētēsis

1) a seeking

2) enquiry

3) a questioning, debate

4) a subject of questioning or debate, matter of controversy

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G2212

Citing in TDNT: 2:893, 300

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

John 3:25: "Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews"
Acts 25:20: "because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether"
1 Timothy 1:4: "genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying"
1 Timothy 6:4: "but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof"
2 Timothy 2:23: "foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do engender"
Titus 3:9: "But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions,"