Bible Dictionary: Feud

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.

2. (n.) A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed.

3. (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profits thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

Greek

2052. eritheia -- rivalry, hence ambition
... rivalry Definition: (the seeking of followers and adherents by means of gifts, the
seeking of followers, hence) ambition, rivalry, self-seeking; a feud, faction ...
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Library

The Kinsman-Redeemer
... If a man were stricken to death, it became a solemn obligation to exact life for
life, and the blood-feud incumbent on all the family was especially binding on ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the kinsman-redeemer.htm

Significance of Compulsory Service.
... pass. Men lived in families, tribes, and races, at feud with one another,
plundering, outraging, and killing one another. These ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter vii significance of compulsory.htm

Justin Justifies his Departure from Greek Customs.
... But when in the course of the war they took captives, Agamemnon was himself taken
captive by Chryseis, and for Briseis' sake kindled a feud with the son of ...
/.../justins discourse to the greeks/chapter i justin justifies his departure.htm

The Nations of the South-East
... river and raided the highlands of Ephraim. Under Saul, Ammon and Israel
were at constant feud. Saul had begun his reign by rescuing ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iii the nations of.htm

Prosperity under Persecution
... The whole history of the long feud between the seed of the woman and the seed of
the serpent illustrates the subtlety of the serpent's seed, and the simplicity ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/prosperity under persecution.htm

No One, However, Has ever Made Such an Unblushing Advance in the ...
... For he introduced the notion of a feud between the two unbegottens, and all those
other fancies which are the consequences of a position of that kind. ...
/.../the acts of the disputation with the heresiarch manes/52 no one however has.htm

At the Jordan
... And when the Pharisees were at open feud with Jesus, they feared to be stoned
if they should pronounce John's baptism to be of men. ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 1 7-11 at the jordan.htm

Chief Events in the Life of Saint Catherine
... A brief visit to Lucca. 1376. Catherine receives Stefano Maconi as a disciple, and
at his instance reconciles the feud between the Maconi and the Tolomei. ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/chief events in the life.htm

To Monna Giovanna Di Corrado Maconi
... Their relations dated from January, 1376, when at his entreaty she healed a feud
of long standing between the Maconi and the rival house of the Tolomei. ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to monna giovanna di corrado.htm

Chrysostom and Eudoxia. His Second Banishment, AD 403
... The restored patriarch and the repentant empress seemed reconciled, and vied with
one another in extravagant laudations for two months, when the feud broke out ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/chapter ix chrysostom and eudoxia his.htm

Thesaurus

Feud (1 Occurrence)
... a fee. Multi-Version Concordance Feud (1 Occurrence). Judges 12:2 And Jephthah
said to them, "I and my people had a great feud with ...
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Fetters (21 Occurrences)

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Fever (13 Occurrences)

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Esther (48 Occurrences)
... is something fantastic, but not altogether unskillful," says Noldeke, "in the touch
whereby Mordecai and Haman are made to inherit an ancient feud, the former ...
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Jacob (361 Occurrences)
... The question whether she should be brought to him, as Rebekah was to Isaac, or he
should go to find her, was settled at last by a family feud that only his ...
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Extinct (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct;
an extinct feud or law. 3. (vt) To cause to be extinct. Int. ...
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Primogeniture
... patriarchal times great importance was attached to preferring the firstborn (Genesis
25:31; Genesis 27:29; Genesis 48:13; Genesis 49:3). The feud between Jacob ...
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Benhadad (24 Occurrences)
... against Baasha king of Israel. The two Hebrew kingdoms had been at feud
ever since their disruption. Baasha had pushed his frontier ...
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Asahel (17 Occurrences)
... him. He also knew that the time had come for making David king, and that
a blood feud among the leaders would be a calamity. He ...
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Achan (7 Occurrences)
... It denotes trouble of the most serious kind-Jacob's trouble when his sons had brought
him into blood feud with his Canaanite neighbors, or Jephthah's trouble ...
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Bible Concordance

Feud (1 Occurrence)

Judges 12:2 And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand.
(DBY RSV)

Subtopics

Feud

Related Terms

Fetters (21 Occurrences)

Fever (13 Occurrences)

Esther (48 Occurrences)

Jacob (361 Occurrences)

Extinct (3 Occurrences)

Primogeniture

Benhadad (24 Occurrences)

Asahel (17 Occurrences)

Achan (7 Occurrences)