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Chide

Chide chid: Only in the Old Testament, translating Hebrew ribh, a word which is more frequently rendered "strive." Since in Gen 31:36, Jdg 8:1, Psa 103:9, the strife is one of words, it means in these passages...

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Chide chid: Only in the Old Testament, translating Hebrew ribh, a word which is more frequently rendered "strive." Since in Gen 31:36, Jdg 8:1, Psa 103:9, 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.

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