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Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7379

רִיב

riv · “strife”

Used 61 times across 17 books

Definition
1) strife, controversy, dispute
1a) strife, quarrel
1b) dispute, controversy, case at law
Where it appears
Genesis
1
Exodus
4
Deuteronomy
5
Judges
1
1 Samuel
2
2 Samuel
3
2 Chronicles
2
Job
4
Psalms
7
Proverbs
12
Isaiah
5
Jeremiah
6
Lamentations
2
Ezekiel
1
Hosea
2
Micah
3
Habakkuk
1
In the text
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.Exodus 17:7And 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 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:Exodus 23:3Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.Exodus 23:6Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.Deuteronomy 1:12How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?Deuteronomy 17:8If 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 19:17Then 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;Deuteronomy 21:5And 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 25:1If 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.

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