H7378 רִיב
rîyb — properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
KJV: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, [idiom] ever, [idiom] lay wait, plead…
Occurs 67 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רִיב vb. strive, contend
- Qal strive
- Hiph. (those) displaying contention against him
Where it occurs
- Genesis 26:20 — The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well…
- Genesis 26:21 — They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.
- Genesis 26:22 — He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now…
- Genesis 31:36 — Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly…
- Exodus 17:2 — Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel…
- Exodus 21:18 — “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;
- Numbers 20:3 — The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before the LORD!
- Numbers 20:13 — These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
- Deuteronomy 33:8 — About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you…
- Judges 6:31 — Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? He who will contend for him…