- רִיב
- רִיבII m. (b. h.; preced.) strife, contest, cause. Meg.21b רִיבֵנוּ, v. preced.; a. e.Pl. רִיבוֹת, רִיבִים. Lev. R. s. 9 מַצּוּת ור׳ ed. Wil. (oth. ed. only מצות) strife and lawsuits. Snh.34b; Nidd.50a; Sifré Deut. 208 (ref. to Deut. 21:5) מקישר׳ לנגעיםוכ׳ the text puts lawsuits on a level with plagues, as the former must be transacted in day-time ; Yeb.104a.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
