Strong's #7378: riyb (pronounced reeb)
or ruwb {roob}; a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend:--adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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rı̂yb / rûb
1) to strive, contend
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to strive
1a1a) physically
1a1b) with words
1a2) to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue
1a3) to make complaint
1a4) to quarrel
1b) (Hiphil) to contend against
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 66 times:
Isaiah 57:16: "For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for"
Jeremiah 2:9: "Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's"
Jeremiah 2:9: "and with your children's children will I plead."
Jeremiah 2:29: "Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 12:1: "art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with"
Jeremiah 50:34: "the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that"
Jeremiah 50:34: "the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that"
Jeremiah 51:36: "saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee;"
Lamentations 3:58: "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."
Hosea 2:2: " Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither"
Hosea 2:2: "Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither"
Hosea 4:4: "Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people"
Hosea 4:4: "reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest."
Amos 7:4: "the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great"
Micah 6:1: "the LORD saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear"
Micah 7:9: "because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth"
