Lexical Summary dichostasia: standing apart, dissension Original Word: διχοστασίαTransliteration: dichostasia Phonetic Spelling: (dee-khos-tas-ee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: standing apart, dissension Meaning: standing apart, dissension Strong's Concordance division, sedition. From a derivative of dis and stasis; disunion, i.e. (figuratively) dissension -- division, sedition. see GREEK dis see GREEK stasis Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1370: διχοστασίαδιχοστασία, διχοστασίας, ἡ (διχοστατέωto stand apart), dissension, division; plural: Romans 16:17; 1 Corinthians 3:3 (Rec.); Galatians 5:20. (Occasionally in Greek writings from Solon in Demosthenes, p. 423, 4 and Herodotus 5, 75 on; (1 Macc. 3:29).) |