Lexical Definition

‎רִיב‎ rîyb (reeb) strife ^H:N-M
or רִב rib (reeb); from ‎רִיב‎

[phrase] adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.

• a contest (personal or legal)

1) strife, controversy, dispute
1a) strife, quarrel
1b) dispute, controversy, case at law

See Greek: ἀδικία · ἀντιλογία · ἀπολογέομαι · δικαίωμα · κακός · κατήγορος · κρίσις · κριτής · λοιδορία

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎רִיב‎₆₂ noun masculine^{Isa 1:23} strife, dispute; — absolute ‎׳‎‎ר‎ Gen 13:7 +, ‎רִב‎ Exod 23:2 +; construct ‎רִיב‎ Exod 17:7 +; suffix ‎רִיבִי‎ 1Sam 24:16* +, ‎בְּרִבָם‎ Job 31:13 (or infinitive?), etc.; plural ‎רִיבֹת‎ Deut 17:8 construct ‎רִיבֵי‎ 2Sam 22:44 + 2 t., ‎רִבוֺת‎ Job 13:6 — strife, quarrel:

1. in words, Exod 17:7 (J), Deut 1:12, about pasturage Gen 13:7 (J; = ‎מְרִיבָה‎ vGen 13:8), in general Prov 15:18; Prov 17:14; Prov 20:3; Prov 26:17; Prov 26:21; Prov 30:33, + ‎מָדוֺן‎ Hab 1:3, so ‎׳‎‎זִבְחֵירֿ‎ Prov 17:1 figurative ‎עֲצָמָיו‎ ‎׳‎‎ר‎ Job 33:19 Kt (Qr ‎רוב‎, i.e. ‎רֹב‎ q. v. ); ‎לְשֹׁנוֺת‎ ‎׳‎‎ר‎ Ps 31:21*, compare Isa 58:4; Prov 18:6 ‎׳‎‎אִישׁ ר‎ Jer 15:10 (+ ‎מָדוֺן‎ ‎׳‎‎א‎). 2. of public hostilities 2Sam 22:44 = Ps 18:44*, compare ‎אִישׁ רִיב‎ Judg 12:2, ‎אַנְשֵׁי‎ ‎רִיבֶ֑ךָ‎ Isa 41:11 || ‎חָמָס‎ Ps 55:10*.

3.₃₉ especially dispute, controversy, case at law: Exod 23:2; Exod 23:3; Exod 23:6 (E), Deut 21:5 (+‎נֶגַע‎), Deut 25:1; 2Sam 15:2; 2Sam 15:4 (|| ‎מִשְׁפָט‎), + 10 t., + (of ‎׳‎‎י‎) Hos 4:1; Hos 12:3*; Mic 6:2 (twice in verse); Jer 25:31; Ezek 44:24; Lam 3:36 as accusative of congnate meaning with verb, case, cause Mic 7:9; Jer 50:34 + 8 t. (see √ 3), + ‎רִיב חֶרְפָּתִי‎ 1Sam 25:39, ‎רִיבֵי נַפְשִׁי‎ Lam 3:58 ‎דִּבְרֵי רִיבֹת‎ Deut 17:8 matters of controversy; ‎׳‎‎ר‎ Deut 19:17 dispute as to guilt; ‎אִישׁ דִיבִי‎ Job 31:35 = accuser.

4. plea: Prov 18:17, ‎רִבוֺת שְׂפָתַי‎ Job 13:6 pleadings of my lips.

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