Strife
מַצָּהStrong’s H4683matstsah (mats-tsah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matstsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “contention”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.”
Meaning
- Strife, contention
How it's translated
- contention 2
- and contention 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַצָּה matstsah · strife
strife, contention
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strife” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRIFE, noun
[See Strive.]
- Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. strife may be carried on between students or between mechanics.
- Contention in anger or enmity; contest; struggle for victory; quarrel or war.“I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon” Judges 12:2
- Opposition; contrariety; contrast.
- The agitation produced by different qualities; as the strife of acid and alkali. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.