Words the Bible translates as defend
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- rivרִיבto press a contention against another: to quarrel, take someone to task, or argue a case against them
- sakhakhסָכַךְto cover or screen something by spreading a covering over or around it, often to shelter and protect
+2 more meanings
- to weave or knit together, to lace separate strands into one whole
- to stir people up against one another, to incite to conflict
- sagavשָׂגַבto be so high as to be out of reach: unassailably high, supremely exalted, or lifted safely beyond harm
- apologeomaiἀπολογέομαιto make a defense in words: to answer an accusation or a challenge by stating one's case
- amunōἀμύνωto defendnot studied yet
- gananגָּנַןto shield: to spread protection over a place or people so that an attack never reaches them, something the Bible says only of God
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