Words the Bible translates as strive
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.
- rivרִיבto press a contention against another: to quarrel, take someone to task, or argue a case against them
- agōnizomaiἀγωνίζομαιto contend with all your strength: to throw everything you have into a contest you mean to win
- natsahנָצָהto fight: to be locked against another party in an open struggle, most often two people coming to blows
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- to be left in ruins: of a city or a countryside, knocked into heaps of rubble and emptied of people
- askeōἀσκέωto strivenot studied yet
- sarahשָׂרָהto contend with someone: to set yourself against another and hold out rather than give way
- gi'aḥגִּיחַto strivenot studied yet
- shedarשְׁדַרto strivenot studied yet
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