Words the Bible translates as strife
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 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
- dinדִּיןjudgment: the deciding of a legal case, whether the verdict handed down or the rightful cause brought for decision.
- erisἔριςstrife: the open, competitive quarreling that fractures a community
- madonמָדוֹןquarreling: open conflict between people, the kind that gets started, spreads, and has to be shut down.
- midyanמִדְיָןquarrels, always in the plural: bickering that keeps going, and so the settled habit of a person who is always fighting.
- eritheiaἐριθείαselfish ambition: a self-seeking drive to promote oneself and one's own side, which competes for standing at others' expense and splits a group into rival factions
- matstsahמַצָּהstrifenot studied yet
- medanמְדָןstrifenot studied yet
- matstsutמַצּוּתstrifenot studied yet
- tigrahתִּגְרָהstrifenot studied yet
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