H7378–רִיב–riv

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

אָרִ֖יב 'a.Riv “I bring a case”

Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.

רִ֥יב riv “certainly <conduct>”יָרִ֖יב ya.Riv “he will conduct”

For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

רָב֙ rav “[am] about to conduct”

O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.

רַ֧בְתָּ Rav.ta “you have conducted”

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

רִ֤יבוּ Ri.vu “conduct a case”רִ֔יבוּ Ri.vu “conduct a case”

Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.

יָרֵ֖ב ya.Rev “he bring a case”כִּמְרִיבֵ֥י (מְרִיבֵ֥י) m.ri.Vei “[those who] contend”

This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

לָרִ֥ב (רִ֥ב) Riv “conducting a case”

Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

רִ֣יב riv “conduct a case”

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

יָרִ֤יב ya.Riv “he will conduct”