νεῖκος
strife, quarrel
Where this word appears
Every passage where νεῖκος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 13 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Job 36:7 νεῖκος He will not turn away his eyes from the righteous, but they shall be with kings on the throne: and he will establish them in triumph, and they shall be exalted.
- Proverbs 10:12 νεῖκος Hatred stirs up strife; but affection covers all that do not love strife.
- Proverbs 22:10 νεῖκος Cast out a pestilent person from the council, and strife shall go out with him; for when he sits in the council he dishonors all.
- Proverbs 29:22 νεῖκος A furious man stirs up strife, and a passionate man digs up sin.
- Jeremiah 3:5 νεῖκος Will God's anger continue for ever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done these bad things, and had power to do them.
- Lamentations 3:18 νεῖκος Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.
- Lamentations 5:20 νεῖκος Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
- Ezekiel 3:8 νεῖκος And, behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power.
- Ezekiel 3:8 νεῖκος And, behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and I will strengthen your power against their power.
- Hosea 10:11 νεῖκος Ephraim is a heifer taught to love victory, but I will come upon the fair part of her neck: I will mount Ephraim; I will pass over Juda in silence; Jacob shall prevail against him.
- Amos 1:11 νεῖκος Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Idumea, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
- Amos 8:7 νεῖκος The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, None of your works shall ever be forgotten.
- Zephaniah 3:5 νεῖκος But the just Lord is in the midst of her, and he will never do an unjust thing: morning by morning he will bring out his judgment to the light, and it is not hidden, and he knows not injustice by extortion, nor injustice in strife.
About this word
About this word
νεῖκος (neîkos), “strife, quarrel,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 13 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →