To strive
שְׁדַרStrong’s H7712shedar (she-dar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shedar is the Aramaic word usually translated “striving”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.”
Meaning
- (Ithpael) to struggle, strive
How it's translated
- striving 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
שְׁדַר shedar · to strive
(Ithpael) to struggle, strive
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRIVE, verb intransitive
preterit tense strove; participle passive striven. [G. This word coincides in elements with drive, and the primary sense is nearly the same. See Rival.]
- To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard; applicable to exertions of body or mind.“STRIVE with me in your prayers to God for me” Romans 15:30“STRIVE to enter in at the strait gate” Luke 13:24
- To contend; to contest; to struggle in opposition to another; to be in contention or dispute; followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.“My spirit shall not always strive with man” Genesis 6:3
- To oppose by contrariety of qualities.
- To vie; to be comparable to; to emulate; to contend in excellence.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.