Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
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Strive
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2 Timothy 2:24
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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רִיב
rîyb · reeb
9 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: Genesis 26:20Strong's last: Hosea 4:4
Open full H7378 profile →נָצָה
nâtsâh · naw-tsaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel
Strong's KJV usage: be laid waste, runinous, strive (together).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:22Strong's last: Deuteronomy 25:11
Open full H5327 profile →ἀγωνίζομαι
agōnízomai · ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to accomplish something)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fight, labor fervently, strive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 13:24Strong's last: Luke 13:24
Open full G75 profile →ἀθλέω
athléō · ath-leh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to contend in the competitive games
Strong's KJV usage: :--strive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:5Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:5
Open full G118 profile →ἐρίζω
erízō · er-id'-zo
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to wrangle
Strong's KJV usage: :--strive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:19Strong's last: Matthew 12:19
Open full G2051 profile →λογομαχέω
logomachéō · log-om-akh-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be disputatious (on trifles)
Strong's KJV usage: :--strive about words.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:14Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:14
Open full G3054 profile →μάχομαι
máchomai · makh'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to war, i.e. (figuratively) to quarrel, dispute
Strong's KJV usage: :--fight, strive.
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:24Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:24
Open full G3164 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: Genesis 6:3Strong's last: Genesis 6:3
Open full H1777 profile →יָרִיב
yârîyb · yaw-rebe'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
literally he will contend; properly, adjective contentious; used as noun, an adversary
Strong's KJV usage: that content(-eth), that strive.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 35:1Strong's last: Psalms 35:1
Open full H3401 profile →רִיב
rîyb · reeb
1 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: Isaiah 41:11Strong's last: Isaiah 41:11
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H1777
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
H7378
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
H7378
And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
H5327
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
H5327
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
H7378
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
H7378
And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
H7378
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
H3401
<<A Psalm of David.>> Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
H7378
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
H7378
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
H7379
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
no direct Strong's tag
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
H7378
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
H7378
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
G2051
He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
G75
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
no direct Strong's tag
Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
no direct Strong's tag
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
G118
And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
G3054
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
G3164
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
English meaning and historical usage.
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strive
STRIVE, verb intransitive preterit tense strove; participle passive striven. [G. This word coincides in elements with drive, and the primary sense is nearly the same. See Rival.]
1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard; applicable to exertions of body or mind. A workman strives to perform his task before another; a student strives to excel his fellows in improvement.
Was it for this that his ambition strove to equal Cesar first, and after Jove?
STRIVE with me in your prayers to God for me. Romans 15:30.
STRIVE to enter in at the strait gate. Luke 8:1.
2. To contend; to contest; to struggle in opposition to another; to be in contention or dispute; followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
My spirit shall not always strive with man. Genesis 6:3.
3. To oppose by contrariety of qualities.
Now private pity strove with public hate, reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
4. To vie; to be comparable to; to emulate; to contend in excellence.
Not that sweet grove of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspird Castalian spring, might with this paradise of Eden strive
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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