Quick Definition
useless debate
Strong's Definition
misemployment, i.e. meddlesomeness
Derivation: from a compound of G3844 (παρά) and G1304 (διατρίβω);
KJV Usage: perverse disputing
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραδιατριβή, παραδιατριβης, ἡ, useless occupation, empty business, misemployment (see παρά, IV. 2): 1Ti_6:5 Rec. (cf. Winers Grammar, 102 (96)), see διαπαρατριβή. Not found elsewhere; (cf. παραδιατυπόω in Justinian (in Koumanoudes, Λεξεις ἀθησαυρος, under the word)).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
διαπαρατριβή diaparatribē 1x
constant disputation, 1Ti_6:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† παρα -δια -τριβή , -ῆς , ἡ ,
useless wrangling: v.l . in Rec. for διαπαρατριβή ( q.v. ), 1Ti_6:5 .†
δια -παρα -τριβή , -ῆς , ἡ
( < παρατριβή , friction, irritation),
mutual irritation ( Field, Notes , 211), wrangling: 1Ti_6:5 ( Rec. παραδιατριβή ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραδιατριβή [page 482]
Παραδιατριβαί has only the support of a few minuscule MSS. in 1Ti_6:5 . The true reading διαπαρατριβαί is understood by Field ( Notes , p. 211) in the sense of mutual irritations : cf. for the sense of reciprocity the simple compd. in Polyb. ii. 36. 5 τὰ μὲν οὖν κατὰ Καρχηδονίους καὶ Ῥωμαίους ἐν ὑποψίαις ἦν πρὸς ἀλλήλους καὶ παρατριβαῖς (cited by Lock ICC ad 1 Tim l.c. ).
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρα-δια-τριβή, -ῆς, ἡ
useless wrangling: seel. in Rec. for διαπαρατριβή (which see), 1Ti.6:5.†
δια-παρα-τριβή, -ῆς, ἡ
(παρατριβή, friction, irritation)
mutual irritation (Field, Notes, 211), wrangling: 1Ti.6:5 (Rec. παραδιατριβή).†
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