רִיב
rîyb · reeb
a contest (personal or legal)
Lexicon
Derivation: or רִב; from H7378 (רִיב);
a contest (personal or legal)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Letters
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the head, the highest › the hand that works › the house, what is within
The head, the highest of the hand that works of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of רִיב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
61 occurrences · 61 OT · 0 NT · 49 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- my cause6 · 14%
- strife5 · 12%
- their cause3 · 7%
- hath a controversy3 · 7%
- in his cause2 · 5%
- me from the strivings2 · 5%
- with strife2 · 5%
- thy cause2 · 5%
- and there was a strife1 · 2%
- because of the chiding1 · 2%
- in a cause1 · 2%
- man in his cause1 · 2%
- and your strife1 · 2%
- of controversy1 · 2%
- between whom the controversy1 · 2%
- shall every controversy1 · 2%
- if there be a controversy1 · 2%
- the cause1 · 2%
- that had a controversy1 · 2%
- which hath any suit1 · 2%
- and for controversies1 · 2%
- and what cause1 · 2%
- to the pleadings1 · 2%
- and the cause1 · 2%
- when they contended1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.