Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
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Strife
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James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
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14 occurrences in 13 verses.
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Genesis
22 verses
Numbers
11 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
Judges
11 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Proverbs
1413 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
11 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
Romans
11 verses
1 Corinthians
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
Philippians
22 verses
1 Timothy
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
James
22 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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רִיב
rîyb · reeb
13 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
a contest (personal or legal)
Strong's KJV usage: adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 13:7Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:3
Open full H7379 profile →מָדוֹן
mâdôwn · maw-dohn'
7 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a contest or quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare 4079, 4090.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 80:6Strong's last: Proverbs 29:22
Open full H4066 profile →מְרִיבָה
mᵉrîybâh · mer-ee-baw'
5 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: provocation, strife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 13:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 48:28
Open full H4808 profile →ἐριθεία
eritheía · er-ith-i'-ah
4 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
properly, intrigue, i.e. (by implication) faction
Strong's KJV usage: :--contention(-ious), strife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Galatians 5:20Strong's last: James 3:16
Open full G2052 profile →ἔρις
éris · er'-is
4 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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 13:13Strong's last: 1 Timothy 6:4
Open full G2054 profile →ἀντιλογία
antilogía · an-tee-log-ee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
dispute, disobedience
Strong's KJV usage: :--contradiction, gainsaying, strife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Hebrews 6:16Strong's last: Hebrews 6:16
Open full G485 profile →φιλονεικία
philoneikía · fil-on-i-kee'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
quarrelsomeness, i.e. a dispute
Strong's KJV usage: :--strife.
Strong's first: Luke 22:24Strong's last: Luke 22:24
Open full G5379 profile →אִישׁ
ʼîysh · eesh
1 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: Judges 12:2Strong's last: Judges 12:2
Open full H376 profile →דִּין
dîyn · deen
1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
to rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law)
Strong's KJV usage: contend contend execute (judgment) judge minister judgment plead (the cause) at strife strive.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 19:9Strong's last: 2 Samuel 19:9
Open full H1777 profile →דִּין
dîyn · deen
1 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
judgement (the suit, justice, sentence or tribunal); by implication also strife
Strong's KJV usage: cause, judgement, plea, strife.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 22:10Strong's last: Proverbs 22:10
Open full H1779 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: Proverbs 17:19Strong's last: Proverbs 17:19
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14 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H4066
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
H7379
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
H4066
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
H7379
Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
H4066
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
H4683
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
H7379
It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
H1779
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
H7379
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
H4066
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
H7379
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
H4066
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
H4066
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
H7379
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
strife
STRIFE, noun [See Strive.]
1. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. strife may be carried on between students or between mechanics.
Thus Gods contended, noble strife who most should ease the wants of life.
2. Contention in anger or enmity; contest; struggle for victory; quarrel or war.
I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon. Judges 12:2.
These vows thus granted, raisd a strife above betwixt the god of war and queen of love.
3. Opposition; contrariety; contrast.
Artificial strife lives in these touches livelier than life.
4. The agitation produced by different qualities; as the strife of acid and alkali. [Little used.]
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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