H7379 רִיב

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 59 KJV occurrences

רִיב

rîyb · reeb

Definition

a contest (personal or legal)

KJV Renderings

[phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.

Derivation / Etymology

or רִב; from H7378 (רִיב);

Sample KJV Verses (8 of 59)

Genesis 13:7And 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.
Deuteronomy 19:17Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
2 Samuel 22:44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
Psalms 35:23Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Proverbs 17:14The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Proverbs 26:17He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Jeremiah 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Lamentations 3:58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.