# G139 αἵρεσις

αἵρεσις (haíresis), Strong’s G139: properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion KJV: heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect. Occurs 12 times.

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*haíresis* — properly, a choice, i.e. (specially) a party or (abstractly) disunion

KJV: heresy (which is the Greek word itself), sect

Derived from [αἱρέομαι hairéomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G138) (to take for oneself, i.e. to prefer)

Occurs 12 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 5:17](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/5?v=17) — But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled…
- [Acts 15:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=5) — But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command…
- [Acts 24:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/24?v=5) — For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and…
- [Acts 24:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/24?v=14) — But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers…
- [Acts 26:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/26?v=5) — having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a…
- [Acts 28:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/28?v=22) — But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is…
- [1 Corinthians 11:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/11?v=19) — For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
- [Galatians 5:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/5?v=20) — idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
- [2 Peter 2:1](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/2?v=1) — But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in…
- [1 Maccabees 8:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/8?v=30) — But if hereafter the one party and the other shall determine to add or diminish anything, they shall do it at their…