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:
Isaiah 29:21: "That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just"
Isaiah 37:4: "to reproach the living God, and will reprove which the LORD thy God"
Jeremiah 2:19: "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil"
Ezekiel 3:26: "that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious"
Hosea 4:4: "man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest."
Amos 5:10: "They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly."
Micah 4:3: "among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off;"
Micah 6:2: "hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel."
Habakkuk 1:12: "thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction."
