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chı̄d: Only in the Old Testament, translating Hebrew ריב, rı̄bh, a word which is more frequently rendered “strive.†Since in ; ; , the strife is one of words, it means in these passages, “scold,†or “sharply censure,†and is applied either to mutinous protests and reproaches of inferiors to a superior, or, as in the last of these passages, to rebukes administered by a superior to inferiors.