1 Timothy 6:4
New Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָדַע
yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o...
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יָאַל
yâʼal
properly, to be slack, i.e. (figuratively) to be foolish
סָבִיב
çâbîyb
(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
דִּין
dîyn
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
אֲשֶׁר
ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
βλάσφημος
blásphēmos
scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men), or (specially) impious (against God)
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Key Terms in This Verse
βλάσφημος blásphēmos
scurrilious, i.e. calumnious (against men), or (specially) impious (against God)
Study G989 →דִּין dîyn
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
Study H1779 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →יָדַע yâdaʻ
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, in...
Study H3045 →אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
Study H834 →Cross References
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and e...
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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