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H7379רִיבriv

strifePart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

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

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61 occurrences in 60 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Genesis 13:7

    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 dwelt then in the land.

    רִ֗יב Riv “quarreling”

  2. Exodus 17:7

    And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'

    רִ֣יב׀ riv “[the] quarrel of”

  3. Exodus 23:2

    Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;

    רִ֗ב Riv “a case at law”

  4. Exodus 23:3

    neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

    בְּרִיבֽוֹ׃ (רִיבֽ) ri.V “case at law”

  5. Exodus 23:6

    Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

    בְּרִיבֽוֹ׃ (רִיבֽ) ri.V “case at law”

  6. Deuteronomy 1:12

    How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

    וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃ (רִֽיבְ) Ri.ve. “dispute[s]”

  7. Deuteronomy 17:8

    If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy G

    רִיבֹ֖ת ri.Vot “cases at law”

  8. Deuteronomy 19:17

    then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days.

    הָרִ֖יב (רִ֖יב) Riv “dispute”

  9. Deuteronomy 21:5

    And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near--for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

    רִ֥יב riv “dispute”

  10. Deuteronomy 25:1

    If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them, by justifying the righteous, and condemning the wicked,

    רִיב֙ riv “a dispute”

  11. Judges 12:2

    And Jephthah said unto them: 'I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand.

    רִ֗יב Riv “strife”

  12. 1 Samuel 24:16

    The LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.'

    רִיבִ֔י (רִיבִ֔) ri.V “case”

  13. 1 Samuel 25:39

    And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back His servant from evil; and the evil-doing of Nabal hath the LORD returned upon his own head.' A

    רִ֨יב riv “[the] case of”

  14. 2 Samuel 15:2

    And Absalom used to rise up early, and stand beside the way of the gate; and it was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said: 'Of what city art thou?' And he said: 'Thy servant is

    רִיב֩ riv “a case at law”

  15. 2 Samuel 15:4

    Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!'

    רִ֥יב riv “a case at law”

  16. 2 Samuel 22:44

    Thou also hast delivered me from the contentions of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations; a people whom I have not known serve me.

    מֵרִיבֵ֖י (רִיבֵ֖י) ri.Vei “[the] strifes of”

  17. 2 Chronicles 19:8

    Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites and the priests, and of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies. And they returned to Jerusalem.

    וְלָרִ֑יב (רִ֑יב) Riv “dispute[s]”

  18. 2 Chronicles 19:10

    And whensoever any controversy shall come to you from your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall warn them, that they be not guilty towards the LORD, and so wrath come

    רִיב֩ riv “case at law”

  19. Job 13:6

    Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

    וְרִב֖וֹת (רִב֖וֹת) ri.Vot “[the] contentions of”

  20. Job 29:16

    I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

    וְרִ֖ב (רִ֖ב) Riv “a case at law of”

  21. Job 31:13

    If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me--

    בְּ֝רִבָ֗ם (רִבָ֗) ri.Va “complaint”

  22. Job 31:35

    Oh that I had one to hear me! --Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me--and that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!

    רִיבִֽי׃ (רִיבִֽ) ri.V “case”

  23. Psalms 18:44

    Thou hast delivered me from the contentions of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations; a people whom I have not known serve me.

    מֵרִ֪יבֵ֫י (רִ֪יבֵ֫י) Ri.Vei “[the] strivings of”

  24. Psalms 31:21

    Thou hidest them in the covert of Thy presence from the plottings of man; Thou concealest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

    מֵרִ֥יב (רִ֥יב) Riv “strife of”

  25. Psalms 35:23

    Rouse Thee, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

    לְרִיבִֽי׃ (רִיבִֽ) ri.V “cause”