'Parties' in the Bible

and if a family splits into parties, that family cannot continue.

and to occupy the best seats in the synagogues and at dinner parties,

But He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in parties of about fifty each."

For from this time there will be in one house five persons split into parties. Three will form a party against two and two will form a party against three;

At length the people of the city split into parties, some siding with the Jews and some with the Apostles.