Strive
Hebrew
Genesis 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Strong’s Hebrew #1777 diyn deen
sail direct:--(come) with a straight course.
or (Gen. 6:3) duwn {doon}; a primitive roy a straight course, i.e.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions H1777 - Original: ‫ ּדּון ּדין‬- Transliteration: Diyn - Phonetic: deen
- Definition:
1. to judge, contend, plead
a. (Qal)
1. to act as judge, minister judgment
2. to plead a cause
3. to execute judgment, requite, vindicate
4. to govern
5. to contend, strive
b. (Niphal) to be at strife, quarrel
- Origin: a primitive root [comp. H113]
- TWOT entry: 426
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
.Exodus 21:22 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.
Deuteronomy 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draws near in order to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that strikes him, and puts
forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets:
Strong’s Hebrew #5327 natsah naw-tsaw'
a primitive root; properly, to go forth, i.e. (by implication)
to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel:--be laid
waste, runinous, strive (together).
Psalms 35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that
fight against me.
Strong’s Hebrew #3401 yariyb yaw-rebe'
from 'riyb' (7378); literally, he will contend; properly,
adjective, contentious; used as noun, an adversary:--that content(-eth), that strive.
Isaiah 41:11 Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and
confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.
Strong’s Hebrew #7379 riyb reeb
or rib {reeb}; from 'riyb' (7378); a contest (personal or legal):--+
adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(ing), suit.
Genesis 26:20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive (7378) with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The
water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove (6229) with him.
Exodus 21:18 And if men strive together, and one strike another with a stone, or with his fist,
and he die not, but keeps his bed:
Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy
one, whom you did prove at Massah, and with whom you did strive at the waters of
Meribah;
Judges 11:25 And now are you 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,
Job 33:13 Why do you strive against him? for he gives not account of any of his matters.
Proverbs 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done you no harm.
Proverbs 25:8 Go not forth hastily to strive, lest you know not what to do in the end thereof,
when your neighbour has put you to shame.
Isaiah 45:9 Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds
of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What make you? or your work, He has
no hands?
Hosea 4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive
with the priest.
Strong’s Hebrew #7378 riyb reeb
or ruwb {roob}; a primitive root; properly, to toss, i.e. grapple;
mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend:--adversary, chide, complain,
contend, debate, X ever, X lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, X thoroughly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions H7378 - Original: ‫רּוב ריב‬o - Transliteration: Riyb - Phonetic: reeb
- Definition:
1. to strive, contend
a. (Qal)
1. to strive 1a
b. physically 1a
c. with words
1. to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue
2. to make complaint
3. to quarrel
d. (Hiphil) to contend against
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 2159
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
Strong’s Hebrew #6229
quarrel; --strive with.
`asaq aw-sak a primitive root (identical with '`ashaq' (6231)); to press upon, i.e.
Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible
H6229 Strong's #6229: AHLB#2562 (V) 2562)  ( AhSQ) ac: Quarrel co: ? ab: ? V)  (
Ah-SQ)
— Quarrel: [df: qVe] [freq. 1] (vf: Hitpael) |kjv: strive| {H6229)
Greek
Matthew 12:19 He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
Strong’s Greek #2051 erizo er-id'-zo
from  - eris 2054; to wrangle:--strive.
Luke 13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in,
and shall not be able.
Strong’s Greek #75 agonizomai ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee from  - agon 73; to struggle,
literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to
accomplish something):--fight, labor fervently, strive.
Romans 15:30 Now I plead to you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love
of the Spirit, that all of you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Strong’s Greek #4865
sunagonizomai soon-ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee
from  sun 4862 and  - agonizomai 75; to struggle in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to be a partner
(assistant):--strive together with.
Collosians 1:29 Whereunto I also labour striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily .
Strong’s Greek #75 agonizomai ag-o-nid'-zom-ahee from  - agon 73; to struggle,
literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive case (to endeavor to
accomplish something):--fight, labor fervently, strive.
Phlippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see
you, or else be absent I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together
for the faith of the gospel;
Strong’s Greek #4866
sunathleo soon-ath-leh'-o
from  - sun 4862 and  athleo 118; to wrestle in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to seek jointly:--labour with, strive together for.
Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Strong’s Greek #464
antagonizomai an-tag-o-nid'-zom-ahee from  - anti 473
and  - agonizomai 75; to struggle against (figuratively) ("antagonize"):--strive against.
Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about
the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Strong’s Greek #3163
mache makh'-ay
(figuratively) controversy:--fighting, strive, striving.
from  - machomai 3164; a battle, i.e.
2 Timothy 2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive
lawfully(G3545).
Strong’s Greek #118
athleo ath-leh'-o
in the competitive games:--strive.
from athlos (a contest in the public lists); to contend
Strong’s Greek #3545
nomimos nom-im'-oce adverb from a derivative of  - nomos
3551; legitimately (specially, agreeably to the rules of the lists):--lawfully.
Thayers
G118
athleo
Thayer Definition:
1) to engage in a contest, contend in public games, contend for a prize
2) to endure, suffer
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from athlos (a contest in the public lists)
Citing in TDNT: 1:167, 25
Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary of American English
STRIVE, v.i. pret. strove; pp. striven. [G. This word coincides in elements with drive, and the primary sense is nearly the
same. See Rival.]
1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard; applicable to exertions of body or
mind. A workman strives to perform his task before another; a student strives to excel his fellows in improvement.
Was it for this that his ambition strove to equal Cesar first, and after Jove?
Strive with me in your prayers to God for me. Rom 15.
Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Luke 8.
2. To contend; to contest; to struggle in opposition to another; to be in contention or dispute; followed by against or
with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth.
My spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen 6.
3. To oppose by contrariety of qualities.
Now private pity strove with public hate, reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.
4. To vie; to be comparable to; to emulate; to contend in excellence.
Not that sweet grove of Daphne by Orontes, and the inspird Castalian spring, might with this paradise of Eden strive.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Games
LITERATURE.
II. The Games of Greece and Rome.
2. General References:
The word which described the assembly gathered together at one of the great Grecian games (agon) was also applied to
the contests themselves, and then came to be used of any intense effort or conflict. The corresponding verb (agonizomai)
had a similar history. Both these words are used figuratively in the Pauline Epistles: the noun in Phil 1:30; Col 2:1; 1Thess
2:2; 1Tim 6:12; 2Tim 4:7, rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (except in the second passage),
"conflict" or "fight"; the verb in Col 1:29; Col 4:12; 1Tim 4:10; 1Tim 6:12; 2Ti 4:7, translated "strive," "fight." In 1Cor
9:25; 2Tim 2:5 (where another word is used) there are literal references. The former passage English Revised Version:
"Every man that striveth in the games (agonizomenos) is temperate in all things," also alludes to the rigid self-control
enforced by long training which the athlete must practice. The training itself is glanced at in the exhortation: "Exercise
thyself (gumnaze) unto godliness" (1Ti 4:7), and in the remark which follows: "Bodily exercise (gumnasia) is profitable for
a little." It is remarkable that the word gymnasium, or "place of training," which occurs in the Apocrypha (2 Macc 4:9,12)
is not met with in the New Testament. The necessity for the observance of rules and regulations is referred to in the
words: "And if also a man contend in the games, he is not crowned, except he have contended lawfully" (2Ti 2:5). In all
these passages the games will have been more or less in the apostle's thought (for other possible New Testament
references compare Heb 5:14; Heb 10:32; Heb 12:1; 2Pet 2:14).