Quick Definition
διχοστασία, ας, ἡ n.f. division, dissension
Strong's Definition
from a derivative of 1364 and 4714; disunion, i.e. (figuratively) dissension
KJV Usage: division, sedition
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | δύο + ἵστημι
39.13 · Hostility, Strife · Division
division, discord a division into opposing groups, generally two In some languages the equivalent of ‘causing division’ (ROM 16:17) is literally ‘to cause two groups in place of one group,’ but more frequently the equivalent is expressed in terms of attitudes, for example, ‘to cause people to be angry at one another’ or ‘to cause people not to like one another’ or ‘to cause people to think of one another as enemies.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
διχοστασία, -as, 7, (διχοστατέω to stand apart), dissension, division; plur.: Ro. xvi. 17; 1 Co. iii. 3 [Ree.]; Gal. v. 20. (Occasionally in Grk. writ. fr. Solon in Dem. p- 423, 4 and Hdt. 5, 75 on; [1 Mace. iii. 29].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
διχοστασία dichostasia 2x
a standing apart; a division, dissension, Rom. 16:17; Gal. 5:20*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** διχοστασία, -ας, ἡ
(< διχοστατέω, to stand apart), [in LXX: I Mac 3:29 * ;]
standing apart, dissension: Ro 16:17, Ga 5:20.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
διχοστασία. Michel 448" (end ii/B.c.) τᾶν τε κτησίων καὶ τῶν ποτ᾽ ἀλλάλος συναλλαγμάτων πάντων ἐν ταραχᾶι τε καὶ διχοστασίαι Tat μεγίσται κειμένων. To Wetstein’s examples of this word (ad Rom 1617) Field (Votes, p. 166) adds two from Dionysius of Halicarnassus and one in Tonic from the Florilegium of Stobaeus.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
διχοστασία (dichostasia) — dissension. δῐχο-στᾰσία, ἡ, dissension, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; sedition, [LXX+6th c.BC+]