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strive

Meaning of “strive”

To contend, struggle, labour earnestly, or exert oneself toward an object.

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22 occurrences20 verses13 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 6:3

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Exodus 21:18
¶ And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
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1611 witness · Exodus 21:18 · retained source text

¶ And if men striue together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

1611 marginal noteOr his neighbour.

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.
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1611 witness · Exodus 21:22 · retained source text

¶ If men striue, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischiefe follow, he shalbe surely punished, according as the womans husband will lay vpon him, and hee shall pay as the Iudges determine.

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