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
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee, shalbe ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing, and they that striue with thee, shall perish.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the men of thy strife.
1611 marginal noteExod. 23.22. Chap. 60.12. Zech.12.3.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Woe vnto him that striueth with his maker: Let the potsheard striue with the potsheards of the earth: shal the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy worke, he hath no hands?
1611 marginal noteIer.18.6. rom.9.20.
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