KJV dictionary & concordance
To contend, struggle, labour earnestly, or exert oneself toward an object.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 6:3
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not alwayes striue with man; for that hee also is flesh: yet his dayes shalbe an hundred and twenty yeeres.
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isaacs heardmen, saying, The water is ours; and hee called the name of the well, Esek, because they stroue with him.
1611 marginal noteThat is, Contention.
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