Words the Bible translates as cause
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- rivרִיבa dispute: a clash between two sides, from a hot quarrel to a formal legal case
- aitiaαἰτίαa reason: the ground or cause that answers why something is so or is done
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- a charge: the stated ground on which someone is accused, found guilty, or condemned
- parechōπαρέχωto make something available to someone: to furnish, provide, offer, or bring it about
- dinדִּיןjudgment: the deciding of a legal case, whether the verdict handed down or the rightful cause brought for decision.
- aphormēἀφορμήan opening to work from: the occasion, foothold, or grounds that make a course of action possible
- divrahדִּבְרָהa case: the matter a person lays out before someone who can settle it
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- in a set phrase, the ground or pattern behind something: on account of, so that, after the manner of
- divrahדִּבְרָהcausenot studied yet
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