Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. 2. (n.) One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. 3. (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. 4. (v. t.) To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. 5. (v. t.) To strive to equal or excel; to emulate. 6. (v. i.) To be in rivalry.

Multi-Version Concordance Rival (5 Occurrences) Leviticus 18:18 "'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 1:6 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 1:7 as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. (See NIV) 1 Samuel 2:32 And thou shalt behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God'shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever. (See JPS) Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty. (See RSV NIV)