Proverbs 25:9
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
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Debate
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Romans 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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רִיב
rîyb · reeb
2 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, × ever, × lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, × thoroughly.
Strong's first: Proverbs 25:9Strong's last: Isaiah 27:8
Open full H7378 profile →ἔρις
éris · er'-is
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
a quarrel, i.e. (by implication) wrangling
Strong's KJV usage: :--contention, debate, strife, variance.
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Strong's first: Romans 1:29Strong's last: Romans 1:29
Open full G2054 profile →מַצָּה
matstsâh · mats-tsaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: contention, debate, strife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 58:4Strong's last: Isaiah 58:4
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H7378
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
H4683
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
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debate
DEBATE, noun
1. Contention in words or arguments; discussion for elucidating truth; strife in argument or reasoning, between persons of different opinions, each endeavoring to prove his own opinion right, and that of his opposer wrong; dispute; controversy; as the debates in parliament or in congress.
2. Strife; contention.
Behold, ye fast for strife and debate Isaiah 1:8.
3. The power of being disputed; as, this question is settled beyond debate; the story is true beyond debate
4. debate or debates, the published report of arguments for and against a measure; as, the debates in the convention are printed.
DEBATE, verb transitive To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain a cause by reasoning; to dispute; to discuss; to argue; to contest, as opposing parties; as, the question was debated till a late hour.
DEBATE thy cause with thy neighbor himself. Proverbs 25:9.
DEBATE, verb intransitive
1. To debate on or in, to deliberate; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind.
2. To dispute.
3. To engage in combat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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