STRONGS NUMBER H7378


Word Summary
rib or rub: to strive, contend
Original Word: רִיב
Transliteration: rib or rub
Phonetic Spelling: (reeb)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to strive, contend
Meaning: to toss, grapple, to wrangle, controversy, to defend
Strong's Concordance
adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, ever, lay wait, plead,

Or ruwb {roob}; a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. Grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. Hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend -- adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7378. rib

or rub רִיב‎ [NöZMG xxxvii (1883). 530, 534 Ges§ 73b]

verb strive, contend (compare Arabic () agitate (the mind), disquiet; compare also Syriac cry, shout, Aph`el also quarrel noisily, shouting, clamour (see Nöl.c.); on Sabean proper name ריב‎ = Arabic see DHMib. 14); —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular רָבJudges 11:25; 1 Samuel 25:29; 2masculine singular רַבְתָּLamentations 3:58, רִיבוֺתָJob 33:13, etc.; Imperfect3masculine singular יָרִיבJudges 6:31 +, jussive יָרֵבHosea 4:4; 1 Samuel 24:16, לוֺ(בּוֺׅ יָ֫רֶבJudges 6:31-32, וַיָּ֫רֶבGenesis 31:36 +; 2 masculine singular תרובProverbs 3:30 Kt, תָּרִיב‎ Qr; 3 masculine plural יְרִיבֻןExodus 21:18, etc.; Imperative masculine singular רִיבMicah 6:1; Proverbs 25:9, רִיבָהPsalm 35:1 +, masculine plural רִיבוּIsaiah 1:17; Hosea 2:4; Infinitive absolute רוֺבJudges 11:25, רֹבJob 40:2; רִיבJeremiah 50:34 (Ges§ 73di. 509 BaNB 80); construct רִיבIsaiah 3:13; Job 9:3 + Judges 21:22 Qr (Kt רוב‎), רִבAmos 7:4; Proverbs 25:8; Participle רָבIsaiah 19:20 +; — strive:

1 involving bodily struggle Exodus 21:18 (that is, one with another; E); public hostilities, לוֺ רָב יָרָיוּDeuteronomy 33:7 (with) his hands he strove for it, with עִם‎ of Israel, רָב הֲרוֺבJudges 11:25 ("" נִלְחַם‎).

2 with words, with ב‎ person Genesis 31:36 (E), Exodus 17:2 a (J) Judges 6:32, so (in figurative) Hosea 2:4 compare 2:4; often = quarrel, with עִם‎ person, Genesis 26:20; Exodus 17:2b Numbers 20:3 (all J), Nehemiah 13:25; subject God Job 9:3; 13:19; 23:6; also 40:2 (עִם‎ of God; on infinitive absolute see Ges§ 113ee), in General Proverbs 3:30; with אֵת‎ person Judges 8:1; Nehemiah 5:7; 13:11, 17, subject ׳יIsaiah 49:25 (compare I. יָרִיב‎ below), Psalm 35:1 ("" לָחַם‎); אֵת‎ of ׳יIsaiah 45:9 (participle one striving), Numbers 20:13 (P); with עַל‎ of thing Genesis 26:21-22, absolute = find fault Hosea 4:4 ("" הוֺכִיחַ‎). Especially

3 conduct a (legal) case, suit, usually figurative, ׳י‎ subject; Isaiah 3:13 ("" דִּין‎), 57:16 ("" קָצַף‎), Psalm 103:9 (נָטַר‎[אַף‎]), compare בָּאֵשׁ לָרִב קֹרֵאAmos 7:4; with accusative of person with whom (unfriendly sense), Job 10:2; Isaiah 27:8; with accusative of congnate meaning with verb רִיב‎ in good sense, = take one's part, 1 Samuel 24:15 (Gi; v.24:16 van d. H. Baer; "" שָׁפַט‎), Micah 7:9; Jeremiah 50:34 (אֶתרִֿיבָם יָרִיב רִיב‎, infinitive construct = infinitive absolute, see above), 51:36 ("" נקם‎), Lamentations 3:58; Proverbs 22:23; Psalm 43:1 (+ מִגּוֺי‎; "" שָׁפַט‎), 119:154 (+ גָּאַל‎), also 74:22 (God, his own cause); + מִיַּד‎ person against whom 1 Samuel 25:39 (of vengeance); + אֵת‎ person against whom Proverbs 23:11, so (without accusative of congnate meaning with verb) Isaiah 50:8; Jeremiah 2:9 (twice in verse); compare הֶהָרִים אֶתֿMicah 6:1 (II. אֵת1c; ᵐ5πρός, whence We Now אֶלֿin the presence of, but on אֶל רִיב‎ see

4); ׳ר‎ = plead, with ל‎ person for whom Judges 6:31 (3 t. in verse); Job 13:8, with accusative of person for whom Isaiah 1:17, of God 51:22, compare Deuteronomy 33:8 (obscure, see Dr); of human disputes Proverbs 25:8, ר ׳רִיבְךָ אֶתרֵֿעֶ֑ךָ25:9.

4 = make complaint, with אֶל‎ person unto and against whom Judges 21:22; Jeremiah 2:29; 12:1; Job 33:13.

Hiph`il Participle suffix מריבו1 Samuel 2:10 Kt (Qr מְרִיבָיו‎), i.e. (those) displaying contention against him (׳י‎), compare plural construct כֹהֵן כִמְרִיבֵי ועַמְּךָ ְHosea 4:4, obscure; RSProph. 406 בִי מָרוּthy people have rebelled against me, O priest ! Beck Wü We GASm הַכֹּהֵן כִּכְמָרָיו וְעַמִּי‎ (׳הַכּ‎ as voc., and [by some] joined to 4:5); HermannSK, 1879, 516 {abbrev}הַכּ מְרִיבִי וְעִמְּךָ‎, compare Oort (רִיבִי‎); RubenCrit, Rem. on the passage הַכּ כָמוֺךָ ועַמִּי ׳ְ‎, so Now. — וַיָּרֶכ1 Samuel 15:5 see ארב

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