# H7378 רִיב

רִיב (rîyb), Strong’s H7378: 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…

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*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.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רִיב vb. strive, contend
- Qal strive
- Hiph. (those) displaying contention against him

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 26:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=21) — They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.
- [Genesis 26:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/20?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/33?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/6?v=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…