Strong's #7379: riyb (pronounced reeb)
or rib {reeb}; from 7378; a contest (personal or legal):--+ adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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rı̂yb / rib
1) strife, controversy, dispute
1a) strife, quarrel
1b) dispute, controversy, case at law
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H7378
Usage:
This word is used 60 times:
Genesis 13:7: "And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's"
Exodus 17:7: "Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted"
Exodus 23:2: "to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many"
Exodus 23:3: "Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause."
Exodus 23:6: "wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause."
Deuteronomy 1:12: "bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?"
Deuteronomy 17:8: "and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up"
Deuteronomy 19:17: "Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before"
Deuteronomy 21:5: "and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be"
Deuteronomy 25:1: "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment,"
Judges 12:2: "them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon;"
1 Samuel 24:15: "me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand."
1 Samuel 25:39: "that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal,"
2 Samuel 15:2: "so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king"
2 Samuel 15:4: "man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!"
2 Samuel 22:44: "Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people"
2 Chronicles 19:8: "of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment of the LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 19:10: " And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell"
Job 13:6: "now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips."
Job 29:16: "I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out."
Job 31:35: "my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book."
Psalms 18:43: "Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people"
Psalms 31:20: "from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues."
Psalms 35:23: "Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord."
Psalms 43:1: "Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:"
Psalms 55:9: "for I have seen violence and strife in the city."
Psalms 74:22: "Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth"
Psalms 119:154: "Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word."
Proverbs 15:18: "but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife."
Proverbs 17:1: "therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife."
Proverbs 17:14: "is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with."
Proverbs 18:6: "A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes."
Proverbs 18:17: "He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbor cometh and searcheth"
Proverbs 20:3: "It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling."
Proverbs 22:23: "For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled"
Proverbs 23:11: "he shall plead their cause with"
Proverbs 25:9: "Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and discover not a secret to another:"
Proverbs 26:17: "He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears."
Proverbs 26:21: "so is a contentious man to kindle strife."
Proverbs 30:33: "so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife."
Isaiah 1:23: "not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto"
Isaiah 34:8: "vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion."
Isaiah 41:11: "they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish."
Isaiah 41:21: "Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King"
Isaiah 58:4: "Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not"
Jeremiah 11:20: "unto thee have I revealed my cause."
Jeremiah 15:10: "that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!"
Jeremiah 20:12: "unto thee have I opened my cause."
Jeremiah 25:31: "of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all"
Jeremiah 50:34: "is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest"
