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Lexicon :: Strong's G139 - hairesis

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αἵρεσις
Transliteration
hairesis (Key)
Pronunciation
hah'-ee-res-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 1:180,27

Trench's Synonyms: cvii. Additional Synonyms

Strong’s Definitions

αἵρεσις haíresis, hah'-ee-res-is; from G138; properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion:—heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G139 in the following manner: sect (5x), heresy (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G139 in the following manner: sect (5x), heresy (4x).

  1. act of taking, capture: e.g. storming a city

  2. choosing, choice

  3. that which is chosen

  4. a body of men following their own tenets (sect or party)

    1. of the Sadducees

    2. of the Pharisees

    3. of the Christians

  5. dissensions arising from diversity of opinions and aims

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
αἵρεσις haíresis, hah'-ee-res-is; from G138; properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion:—heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect.
STRONGS G139:
αἵρεσις, -εως, ἡ;
1. (from αἱρέω), act of taking, capture: τῆς πόλεως, the storming of a city; in secular authors.
2. (from αἱρέομαι), choosing, choice, very often in secular writings: Sept. Leviticus 22:18; 1 Macc. 8:30.
3. that which is chosen, a chosen course of thought and action; hence one's chosen opinion, tenet; according to the context, an opinion varying from the true exposition of the Christian faith (heresy): 2 Peter 2:1 (cf. DeWette at the passage), and in ecclesiastical writings [cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word].
4. a body of men separating themselves from others and following their own tenets (a sect or party): as the Sadducees, Acts 5:17; the Pharisees, Acts 15:5; Acts 26:5; the Christians, Acts 24:5, 14 (in both instances with a suggestion of reproach); Acts 28:22 (in Diogenes Laërtius 1 (13) 18f, others, used of the schools of philosophy).
5. dissensions arising from diversity of opinions and aims: Galatians 5:20; 1 Corinthians 11:19. [Cf. Meyer, at the passages cited; B. D. American edition under the word Sects; Burton, Bampt. Lect. for 1829; Campbell, Diss. on the Gospels, diss. ix., part iv.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Leviticus
22:18
Acts
5:17; 15:5; 24:5; 24:14; 26:5; 28:22
1 Corinthians
11:19
Galatians
5:20
2 Peter
2:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G139 matches the Greek αἵρεσις (hairesis),
which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 5:17 - And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:5 - and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying -- 'It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:5 - for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:14 - 'And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:5 - knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:22 - and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 11:19 - for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 5:20 - idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Pe 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Pe 2:1 - And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,
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