ἘΡΙΣ, ἐρις
ERIS, eris
Sounds Like: EH-ris
Translations: strife, contention, dispute, quarrel, a strife, a contention
From the root: ἘΡΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a state of conflict, disagreement, or rivalry. It can describe a verbal dispute, a quarrel, or a more general sense of discord and contention between individuals or groups. It is often used in contexts describing negative social interactions.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2054 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:50
Clement of Rome
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 8:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΡΙΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΡΙΔΙ — (to) strife, (to) contention, (to) discord, a strife, a contention, a discord
- ἘΡΙΝ — strife, contention, discord, rivalry, a strife, a contention, a discord, a rivalry
- ἘΡΙΣΤΙΚΟΣ — contentious, quarrelsome, argumentative, a contentious person, a quarrelsome person
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