Strong's #3198: yakach (pronounced yaw-kahh')
a primitive root; to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict:--appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâkach
1) to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to decide, judge
1a2) to adjudge, appoint
1a3) to show to be right, prove
1a4) to convince, convict
1a5) to reprove, chide
1a6) to correct, rebuke
1b) (Hophal) to be chastened
1c) (Niphal) to reason, reason together
1d) (Hithpael) to argue
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 59 times:
Genesis 20:16: "are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved."
Genesis 21:25: "And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water,"
Genesis 24:14: "Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac;"
Genesis 24:44: "be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son."
Genesis 31:37: "it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge us both."
Genesis 31:42: "mine affliction of my hands, and rebuked thee last night."
Leviticus 19:17: "thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not"
Leviticus 19:17: "thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not"
2 Samuel 7:14: "my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children"
2 Kings 19:4: "to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God"
1 Chronicles 12:17: "the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke"
1 Chronicles 16:21: "no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,"
Job 5:17: "happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:"
Job 6:25: "are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"
Job 6:25: "words! but what doth your arguing reprove?"
Job 6:26: "Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?"
Job 9:33: "Neither is there any daysman between us, that might lay his hand upon us both."
Job 13:3: "to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God."
Job 13:10: " He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons."
Job 13:10: "He will surely reprove He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons."
Job 13:15: "he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before"
Job 15:3: " Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?"
Job 16:21: " O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor!"
Job 19:5: "indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:"
Job 22:4: " Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?"
Job 23:7: "There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge."
Job 32:12: "you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:"
Job 33:19: " He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong"
Job 40:2: "with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer"
Psalms 6:1: "A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten"
Psalms 38:1: "of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure."
Psalms 50:8: "I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before"
Psalms 50:21: "that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes."
Psalms 94:10: "He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge,"
Psalms 105:14: "no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;"
Psalms 141:5: "Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break"
Proverbs 3:12: "whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth."
Proverbs 9:7: "a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot."
Proverbs 9:8: " Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love"
Proverbs 9:8: "a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love"
Proverbs 15:12: "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise."
Proverbs 19:25: "a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge."
Proverbs 24:25: " But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon"
Proverbs 25:12: "and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear."
Proverbs 28:23: " He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flattereth with the tongue."
Proverbs 30:6: "unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."
Isaiah 1:18: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be"
Isaiah 2:4: "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords"
Isaiah 11:3: "after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:"
Isaiah 11:4: "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite"
