Logomacheo denotes engaging in a dispute that 2 Timothy 2:14 warns can ruin its hearers.

The attested use concerns being told not to engage in disputing about what is useless, since the surrounding statement describes harm to those who hear.

1. Disputing about useless matters · dominant

   In 2 Timothy 2:14, the present active infinitive occurs in the instruction not to engage in this action “about anything useless”; the APB renders the clause “not to quarrel about anything useless,” followed by “leading to the ruin of those who hear.”

   2 Timothy 2:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Timothy 2:14, the APB presents the clause as “not to quarrel about anything useless.” As a whole-verse translation, it does not independently align each English word to the Greek form.