Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H7378: רִיב (rîyb) Definition

Strong's number
H7378
Lemma
רִיב
Transliteration
rîyb
Pronunciation
reeb
Strong's definition
properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, [idiom] ever, [idiom] lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, [idiom] thoroughly. or רוּב; a primitive root;

59 instances of the word רִיב rîyb (H7378)


  • Isaiah 51:22 - Thus saith thy Lord the LORD and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thine hand of the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again

  • Isaiah 57:16 - for ever For I will not contend neither will I be always wroth for the spirit before should fail me and the souls which I have made

  • Jeremiah 2:9 - Wherefore I will yet plead with you saith the LORD and with your children's and with your children's Wherefore I will yet plead

  • Jeremiah 2:29 - Wherefore will ye plead with me ye all have transgressed against me saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 12:1 - Righteous art thou O LORD when I plead with thee of thy judgments with thee yet let me talk Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously

  • Jeremiah 50:34 - Their Redeemer is strong the LORD of hosts is his name he shall throughly he shall throughly their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 51:36 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will plead thy cause and take vengeance for thee and I will dry up her sea dry and make her springs

  • Job 9:3 - If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand

  • Job 10:2 - I will say unto God Do not condemn me shew me wherefore thou contendest

  • Job 13:8 - his person Will ye accept for God will ye contend

  • Job 13:19 - Who is he that will plead with me for now if I hold my tongue I shall give up the ghost

  • Job 23:6 - me with his great power Will he plead against No but he would put

  • Job 31:13 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant

  • Job 33:13 - Why dost thou strive of any of his matters against him for he giveth not account

  • Job 40:2 - Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he that reproveth God let him answer

  • Judges 6:31 - said And Joash unto all that stood against him Will ye plead for Baal will ye save against him Will ye plead for him let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning if he be a god against him Will ye plead for himself because one hath cast down his altar

  • Judges 6:32 - he called Therefore on that day him Jerubbaal saying plead Let Baal against him because he hath thrown down his altar

  • Judges 8:1 - said And the men of Ephraim unto him Why hast thou us thus served that thou calledst us not when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites And they did chide with him sharply

  • Judges 11:25 - And now art thou any thing better And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab did he ever did he ever against Israel fight fight

  • Judges 21:22 - come And it shall be when their fathers or their brethren unto us to complain that we will say unto them Be favourable unto them for our sakes because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war for ye did not give unto them at this time that ye should be guilty