8 occurrences

'Contention' in the Bible

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus,

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀρκέω 
Arkeo 
Usage: 6

H14
אבה 
'abah 
Usage: 54

גּרה 
Garah 
Usage: 14

דּוּן דּין 
Diyn 
Usage: 24

יאל 
Ya'al 
Usage: 18

יריב 
Yariyb 
Usage: 3

מדון 
Madown 
Usage: 11

מדין 
Midyan 
Usage: 9

מצּה 
Matstsah 
Usage: 3

מצּוּת 
Matstsuwth 
Usage: 1

רוּב ריבo 
Riyb 
Usage: 66

רב ריב 
Riyb 
Usage: 60

תּחרה 
Tacharah 
Usage: 2

G73
ἀγών 
Agon 
Usage: 6

αὐτάρκεια 
Autarkeia 
Usage: 2

διακρίνω 
Diakrino 
Usage: 16

ἐπαγωνίζομαι 
Epagonizomai 
Usage: 1

ἐριθεία 
Eritheia 
Usage: 7

ἔρις 
Eris 
Usage: 9

παροξυσμός 
Paroxusmos 
Usage: 2

φιλόνεικος 
Philoneikos 
Usage: 1