Strong's Hebrew · H7379
רִיב
rîyb · reeb
Definitiona contest (personal or legal)
Derivationor רִב; from H7378 (רִיב);
KJV usage[phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Occurrences60 in the KJV · 59 verses
רִיב in Scripture
Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram' s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot' s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment :
Exodus 23:3
Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Exodus 23:6
Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
Deuteronomy 1:12
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
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, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
Deuteronomy 19:17
Then 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;
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 by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried :
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
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 delivered me not out of their hands.
1 Samuel 24:15
The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
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