φιλονεικία, φιλονεικίας, ἡ (φιλόνεικος, which see), love of strife, eagerness to contend (Plato, Plutarch, Lucian, others; 4Ma_1:26); contention: Luk_22:24. (2Ma_4:4; Thucydides 8, 76; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 8, 4; Antoninus 3, 4; in a good sense, emulation, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch, others.)

φιλονεικία philoneikia 1x a love of contention; rivalry, contention, Luk_22:24

** φιλονεικία , -ας , ἡ ( < φιλόνεικος ), [in LXX : 2Ma_4:4 , 4Ma_1:26 ; 4Ma_8:26 * ;] love of strife, rivalry, emulation ( Plat ., al. ), but mostly in bad sense ( Thuc ., al. ), contentiousness, contention: Luk_22:24 (but v. Field, Notes , 75 f .).†

φιλον (ε )ικία [page 670] For Luk. 22:24, the only occurrence of this word in the NT, Field ( Notes , p. 75 f.) prefers the rendering emulation to strife (AV) or contention (RV), and this may be supported by the late P Oxy XVI. 1860 .7 (vi/vii A.D.) εἰ θέ ]λει ἡ ἀγαθὴ ἡμῶν ( l. ὑμῶν ) ϕ̣[ι ]λ̣[ο ]ν̣ε [ικία ] γνωρίσαι αὐτὴν τὸ περὶ τῆς [ἀ ]ληθείας , if your good ambition desires to ascertain for yourself the truth (Edd.). The thought of dispute is uppermost in such passages from the papyri as P Lond 992 .11 (A.D. 507) (= III. p. 253) πρὸ δίκης καὶ φιλονικείας ἔδοξεν ἡμῖν κτλ ., an agreement to submit certain matters at dispute to arbitration, P Oxy I. 1571 (vi/A.D.) ἐπιδὲ φιλονικία γέγονεν μεταξὺ Παπνουθίου τοῦ μονάζοντος καὶ τοῦ γραμματευς (= -τέως ) with reference to a dispute between a monk and a scribe, and from the inscrr. as Syll 929 (= .3 685) .36 (B.C. 139) διὰ τὸ ὑπερβαλλόν τως αὐτοὺς τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους φιλονικίαν ἐνεστάσθαι . This last ex. shows the correct spelling of the word φιλονικία , derived from φίλος and νίκη , victory, see Blass Gr. p. 8; cf. also Magn 105 .8 (B.C. 138). For the verb φιλονικέω cf. a fragment of Demosth. de Pace preserved in PSI II. 129 .14 (1V/A.D.)

φιλονεικία φι^λονεικία, ἡ, "love of strife, eager rivalry, contentiousness, party-spirit", Thuc. , etc. in good sense, "emulation", Xen. ; διὰ φιλονεικίαν "eagerly", id=Xen.

φιλονεικία, -ας, ἡ (φιλόνεικος), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:4, 4Ma.1:26 4Mac 8:26 * ;] love of strife, rivalry, emulation (Plat., al.), but mostly in bad sense (Thuc., al.), contentiousness, contention: Luk.22:24 (but see Field, Notes, 75 f.).† (AS)