# H7379 רִיב

רִיב (rîyb), Strong’s H7379: a contest (personal or legal) KJV: [phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the…. Occurs 61 times.

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*rîyb* — a contest (personal or legal)

KJV: [phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the…

Derived from [רִיב rîyb](https://besorah.bible/word/H7378) (to toss, i.e. grapple)

Occurs 61 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רִיב 62 n.m. strife, dispute

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 13:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=7) — There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the…
- [Exodus 17:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=7) — He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested…
- [Exodus 23:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=2) — “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
- [Exodus 23:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=3) — You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
- [Exodus 23:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=6) — “You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
- [Deuteronomy 1:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=12) — How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
- [Deuteronomy 17:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/17?v=8) — If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between…
- [Deuteronomy 19:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/19?v=17) — then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who…
- [Deuteronomy 21:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=5) — The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in…
- [Deuteronomy 25:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=1) — If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the…