Topic
Plead
32 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 17:8ISBE
¶ If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy…
- Judges 6:31ISBE
And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
- Judges 6:32ISBE
Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
- 1 Samuel 24:15ISBE
The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
- Job 13:6ISBE
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
- Job 13:19ISBE
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
- Job 16:21ISBE
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
- Job 19:5ISBE
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
- Job 23:6ISBE
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
- Psalms 35:1ISBE
Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- Proverbs 31:9ISBE
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
- Isaiah 1:17ISBE
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
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- Isaiah 3:13 ISBE
- Isaiah 43:26 ISBE
- Isaiah 59:4 ISBE
- Isaiah 66:16 ISBE
- Jeremiah 2:9 ISBE
- Jeremiah 2:35 ISBE
- Jeremiah 5:28 ISBE
- Jeremiah 12:1 ISBE
- Jeremiah 22:16 ISBE
- Jeremiah 25:31 ISBE
- Jeremiah 30:13 ISBE
- Ezekiel 17:20 ISBE
- Ezekiel 20:35 ISBE
- Ezekiel 20:36 ISBE
- Ezekiel 38:22 ISBE
- Hosea 2:2 ISBE
- Joel 3:2 ISBE
- Micah 6:2 ISBE
- 2 Maccabees 4:44 ISBE
- Acts 19:38 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 34 references
pled: In modern non-legal English is a synonym of "pray" or "beseech," but in legal phraseology "plea," "plead," and "pleading" have a great variety of technical meanings, with "present a case before the court" as the idea common to all. All the uses of "plead" in English Versions of the Bible are connected with this legal sense, so that outside of the set phrase "plead a cause" (1Sa 24:15, etc.) there is hardly a use of the word in the King James Version, the English Revised Version, or the American Standard Revised Version that is clear modern English The most obscure instances are due to The King James Version's employment of "plead" to translate the niphal of shaphaT. ShaphaT means "judge," so its niphal means "bring oneself into a case to be judged," "enter into controversy with," and so "plead" in the legal sense. Hence, "None pleadeth in truth" (Isa 59:4) means "none of their lawsuits are honest." Accordingly, when God is said to "plead with" man (Isa 66:16 the King James Version, the English Revised Version, etc.), the meaning is that God states His side of the case and not at all that He supplicates man to repent. And this statement by God is a judicial act that of course admits of no reply. Hence, the Revised Version (British and American) has changed "plead with" into "enter into judgment with" in Jer 2:35, and the American Standard Revised Version has carried this change into all the other passages (Jer 25:31; Eze 17:20; 20:35,36; 38:22), with "execute judgment" in Isa 66:16; Joe 3:2. The same verb form occurs also in Isa 43:26: "Let us plead together," where "Let us present our arguments on both sides" would be a fair paraphrase. Otherwise "plead" usually represents ribh, for which the Revised Version (British and American) gives "strive" in place of "plead" in Ps 35:1, and "contend" in Job 13:19; 23:6 (the American Standard Revised Version also in Jud 6:31,32; Isa 3:13; Jer 2:9; 12:1; Ho 2:2, retaining "plead" only in Isa 1:17 and in the phrase "plead a cause"). yakhach, is rendered "plead" in Job 19:5 ("plead against me my reproach," where the meaning is "convict me of"), in Mic 6:2 the King James Version and the English Revised Version (the American Standard Revised Version "contend"), and Job 16:21 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "maintain the right"). "Plead" is used also for din, in Jer 30:13 and Pr 31:9 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "minister justice to"), and Jer 5:28 the Revised Version (British and American) (the King James Version "judge"; compare Jer 22:16, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "judge"). the Revised Version (British and American) would have done vastly better if the use of "plead" had been avoided altogether.
Pleadings (i.e. "arguments") occurs in Job 13:6 (for ribh), and "plea" (din, in a specific legal sense) in De 17:8. the King James Version uses "implead" in Ac 19:38 for egkaleo, the Revised Version (British and American) "accuse," literally, "call into court"; compare also "pleaded the cause" in 2 Macc 4:44 (literally, "argued the case") and 4:47, the Revised Version (British and American) "pleaded" (literally, "spoken," the King James Version "told their cause").
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.