Debate
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Proverbs 25:9
- Last Reference: Romans 1:29
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
DEBATE, noun
1. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; strife in argument or reasoning, between persons of different opinions, each endeavoring to prove his own opinion right, and that of his opposer wrong; dispute; controversy; as the debates in parliament or in congress.
2. Strife; contention.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate Isaiah 1:8.
3. The power of being disputed; as, this question is settled beyond debate; the story is true beyond debate
4. debate or debates, the published report of arguments for and against a measure; as, the debates in the convention are printed.
DEBATE, verb transitive To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain a cause by reasoning; to dispute; to discuss; to argue; to contest, as opposing parties; as, the question was debated till a late hour.
DEBATE thy cause with thy neighbor himself. Proverbs 25:9.
DEBATE, verb intransitive
1. To debate on or in, to deliberate; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind.
2. To dispute.
3. To engage in combat.
DEBA'TED, participle passive Disputed; argued; discussed.
DEBA'TEFUL, adjective
1. Of things, contested; occasioning contention.
2. Of persons, quarrelsome; contentious.
DEBA'TEFULLY, adverb With contention.
DEBA'TEMENT, noun Controversy; deliberation.
DEBA'TER, noun One who debates; a disputant; a controvertist.