14 occurrences

'Strive' in the Bible

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.

Verse ConceptsServants, BadDishonesty, Examples OfPeople Possessing Other ThingsPeople Naming ThingsStock Keeping

And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

Verse ConceptsDisputesBatteryBedsBeating PeopleBeing Struck With StonesNot Dyingstriving

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.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombUnborn FetusesLawsuitsAccidental KillingsJudicial PunishmentFighting One AnotherstruggleHurt

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:

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

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;

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtTestingThe Urim And ThummimUrim And Thummim

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,

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Verse ConceptsComplaintsGod Is ImmanentComplaining

{A Psalm of David.} Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightBattleEnemy Attacksstriving

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

Verse ConceptsBlameDiscordDisputesaccusations

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.

Verse ConceptsLitigationRashnessAttorneyLawsuitsHasteShaming PeopleHurt And Betrayalstriving

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.

Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

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?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Verse ConceptsAvoid Quarrelsstrivingaccusationspriests

Bible Theasaurus

Endeavor (9 instances)
Endeavour (7 instances)
Strain (5 instances)
Strive (81 instances)

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