riv (to contend) · Rightly

Meaning

To strive, contend(Qal) · (Hiphil) to contend against

How it's translated

and i contended 4
he will conduct 4
conduct 3
conduct a case 3
and they disputed 2
and it quarreled 2
he will conduct a case 2
let him conduct a case 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Isaiah 9
Job 7
Judges 5
Psalms 5
Proverbs 5
Jeremiah 5

16 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 26:21And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Genesis 26:22And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Genesis 31:36And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
Exodus 21:18And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
Numbers 20:3And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

All 59 verses, by book

Genesis 4: 26:20 26:21 26:22 31:36
Exodus 2: 17:2 21:18
Numbers 2: 20:3 20:13
Deuteronomy 2: 33:7 33:8
Judges 5: 6:31 6:32 8:1 11:25 21:22
1 Samuel 3: 2:10 24:15 25:39
Nehemiah 4: 5:7 13:11 13:17 13:25
Job 7: 9:3 10:2 13:8 13:19 23:6 33:13 40:2
Psalms 5: 35:1 43:1 74:22 103:9 119:154
Proverbs 5: 3:30 22:23 23:11 25:8 25:9
Isaiah 9: 1:17 3:13 19:20 27:8 45:9 49:25 50:8 51:22 57:16
Jeremiah 5: 2:9 2:29 12:1 50:34 51:36
Lamentations 1: 3:58
Hosea 2: 2:2 4:4
Amos 1: 7:4
Micah 2: 6:1 7:9

Hebrew dictionary

רִיב riv · to contend

1) to strive, contend 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to strive 1a1a) physically 1a1b) with words 1a2) to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue 1a3) to make complaint 1a4) to quarrel 1b) (Hiphil) to contend against

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.