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H7378רִיבriv

to contendPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 4
  2. 3
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 2
  5. 2
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. 8
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 3
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1 Chronicles: 0
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. 4
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 7
  19. 5
  20. 5
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 9
  24. 7
  25. 1
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. 4
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 2
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

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67 occurrences in 59 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Job 13:19

    Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.

    יָרִ֣יב ya.Riv “will he conduct a case”

  2. Job 23:6

    Would He contend with me in His great power? Nay; but He would give heed unto me.

    יָרִ֣יב ya.Riv “will he conduct a case”

  3. Job 33:13

    Why hast thou striven against Him? seeing that He will not answer any of his words.

    רִיב֑וֹתָ ri.Vo.ta “have you contended”

  4. Job 40:2

    Shall he that reproveth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

    הֲ֭רֹב (רֹב) ro “will he contend”

  5. Psalms 35:1

    A Psalm of David. Strive, O LORD, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me.

    רִיבָ֣ה (רִיבָ֣) ri.Va “contend”

  6. Psalms 43:1

    Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

    וְרִ֘יבָ֤ה (רִ֘יבָ֤) Ri.Va “conduct”

  7. Psalms 74:22

    Arise, O God, plead Thine own cause; remember Thy reproach all the day at the hand of the base man.

    רִיבָ֣ה (רִיבָ֣) ri.Va “conduct”

  8. Psalms 103:9

    He will not always contend; neither will He keep His anger for ever.

    יָרִ֑יב ya.Riv “he will conduct a case”

  9. Psalms 119:154

    Plead Thou my cause, and redeem me; quicken me according to Thy word.

    רִיבָ֣ה (רִיבָ֣) ri.Va “conduct”

  10. Proverbs 3:30

    Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

    תָּרִ֣יב ta.riv “you contend”

  11. Proverbs 22:23

    For the LORD will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.

    יָרִ֣יב ya.Riv “he will conduct”

  12. Proverbs 23:11

    For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause with thee.

    יָרִ֖יב ya.Riv “he will conduct”

  13. Proverbs 25:8

    Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

    לָרִ֗ב (רִ֗ב) Riv “contest a lawsuit”

  14. Proverbs 25:9

    Debate thy cause with thy neighbour, but reveal not the secret of another;

    רִ֣יב riv “conduct”

  15. Isaiah 1:17

    Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

    רִ֖יבוּ Ri.vu “conduct a case for”

  16. Isaiah 3:13

    The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the peoples.

    לָרִ֖יב (רִ֖יב) Riv “conduct a case”

  17. Isaiah 19:20

    And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and He will send them a saviour, and a defender, who will deliver them.

    וָרָ֖ב (רָ֖ב) Rav “[one who] contends”

  18. Isaiah 27:8

    In full measure, when Thou sendest her away, Thou dost contend with her; He hath removed her with His rough blast in the day of the east wind.

    תְּרִיבֶ֑נָּה (תְּרִיבֶ֑) te.ri.Ve. “you will conduct a case with”

  19. Isaiah 45:9

    Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker, as a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioned it: 'What makest thou?' Or: 'Thy work, it hath no hands'?

    רָ֚ב rav “[one who] contends”

  20. Isaiah 49:25

    But thus saith the LORD: even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; and I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

    אָרִ֔יב 'a.Riv “I will oppose”

  21. Isaiah 50:8

    He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together; who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

    יָרִ֥יב ya.Riv “will he contend”

  22. Isaiah 51:22

    Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of His people: behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering; the beaker, even the cup of My fury, thou shalt no more drink it again;

    יָרִ֣יב ya.Riv “[who] he conducts a case for”

  23. Isaiah 57:16

    For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit that enwrappeth itself is from Me, and the souls which I have made.

    אָרִ֔יב 'a.Riv “I will conduct a case”

  24. Jeremiah 2:9

    Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

    אָרִ֥יב 'a.Riv “I will contend”אָרִֽיב׃ 'a.Riv “I will contend”

  25. Jeremiah 2:29

    Wherefore will ye contend with Me? Ye all have transgressed against Me, saith the LORD.

    תָרִ֖יבוּ ta.Ri.vu “do you contend”