Strife
רִיבStrong’s H7379riv
Appears in 60 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Riv is the Hebrew word usually translated “case my”, “strife” and “case at law”. It appears in 60 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.”
Meaning
- Strife, controversy, disputestrife, quarrel · dispute, controversy, case at law
How it's translated
- case my 7
- strife 6
- a case at law 5
- a dispute 4
- in case at law his 3
- case your 3
- case their 3
- the dispute 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 12
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 6
- Deuteronomy 5
- Isaiah 5
- Exodus 4
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
- Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
- Exodus 23:3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
- Exodus 23:6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
- Deuteronomy 1:12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
- Deuteronomy 17:8If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
All 60 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
רִיב riv · strife
1) strife, controversy, dispute 1a) strife, quarrel 1b) dispute, controversy, case at law
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.