Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
strictly, a choice or option; hence, a religious sect, faction; by implication, discord, contention
Translated in KJV as
heresy (which is the Greek word itself)sect
Etymology
from G138 (αἱρέομαι);
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