Hebrew

To contend

תַּחָרָהStrong’s H8474

tacharah (ta-cha-rah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Tacharah is the Hebrew word usually translated “compete” and “competing”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?”

Jeremiah 12:5 KJV

Meaning

To burn, be kindled (of anger)(Tiphel) to heat oneself in vexation

How it's translated

will you compete 1
competing 1

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

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Hebrew dictionary

תַּחָרָה tacharah · to contend

1) to burn, be kindled (of anger) 1a) (Tiphel) to heat oneself in vexation

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.