To contend
עָשַׂקStrong’s H6229asaq (a-saq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Asaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “quarreled”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.”
Meaning
- (Hithpael) to strive, contend, quarrel
How it's translated
- they quarreled 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
עָשַׂק asaq · to contend
(Hithpael) to strive, contend, quarrel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “contend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CONTEND, verb intransitive
[Latin, to stretch. Gr., See Tend, Tenet.]
- To strive, or to strive against; to struggle in opposition.“Distress not the Moabites, nor contend with them in battle” Deuteronomy 2:9
- To strive; to use earnest efforts to obtain, or to defend and preserve.“Ye should earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints” Jude 1:3
- To dispute earnestly; to strive in debate.“They that were of the circumcision contended with him” Acts 11:2
- To reprove sharply; to chide; to strive to convince and reclaim.“Then contended I with the rulers” Nehemiah 13:11
All definitions and other forms of “contend”
- To strive in opposition; to punish.“The Lord God called to contend by fire” Amos 7:4
- To quarrel; to dispute fiercely; to wrangle.
CONTEND, verb transitive
To dispute; to contest.
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.