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Hebrew verb · H3198

יָכַח

yakachyaw-kahh'

to rebuke

59 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: yâkach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3198is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 15 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 49
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H3198

to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict

The King James renders it: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

yakach is rendered "to rebuke". It stands 59 times in the Hebrew text, across fifteen books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 20:16And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”
  • The Greek text spells it forty-nine different ways.

The first use

And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”

Genesis 20:16וְנֹכָֽחַת׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's fifty-nine uses are in Job.

The other 24 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • reproves4
  • and he rebuked3
  • and he will decide3
  • and he will rebuke2
  • certainly to rebuke2
  • you rebuke me2
  • ¿ to reprove1
  • an arbiter1
  • and for the adjudicates1
  • and for the rebuke1
  • and he decided1
  • and he is chastened1

and 37 more, 59 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 59, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

49 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • מוֹכִ֑יחַ4
  • הוֹכֵ֣חַ3
  • וְהוֹכִ֙יחַ֙2
  • וְהוֹכִ֥יחַ2
  • וַיּ֥וֹכַח2
  • יוֹכִ֑יחַ2
  • תוֹכִיחֵ֑נִי2
  • אוֹכִֽיחַ׃1
  • אוֹכִיחֲךָ֖1
  • אוֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ1
  • הוֹכֵ֤חַ1
  • הוֹכֵ֣חַֽ1

and 37 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vhq3ms7Hc/Vhq3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular7HVhrmsa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular6HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute5HVhaa
  • Hc/Vhw3ms3Hc/Vhw3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/Vhj3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HVhi1cs/Sp2ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Vhrmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Vhrmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute1HC/Vhaa
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/Vhcc

Genesis

six uses
  • And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”

    Genesis 20:16

    • וְנֹכָֽחַת׃venokhachatconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: and vindicated
  • But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

    Genesis 21:25

    • וְהוֹכִ֥חַvehokhiachHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he rebuked
  • Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

    Genesis 24:14

    • הֹכַ֙חְתָּ֙hokhachtaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have appointed
  • and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.

    Genesis 24:44

    • הֹכִ֥יחַhokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has appointed
  • You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.

    Genesis 31:37

    • וְיוֹכִ֖יחוּveyokhichuHC/Vhu3mptagged: so they may decide
  • If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”

    Genesis 31:42

    • וַיּ֥וֹכַחvaiyokhachHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he decided

Leviticus

two uses
  • You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

    Leviticus 19:17

    • הוֹכֵ֤חַhokheachverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to rebuke
    • תּוֹכִ֙יחַ֙tokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will rebuke

2 Samuel

one use
  • I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

    2 Samuel 7:14

    • וְהֹֽכַחְתִּיו֙vehokhachtivHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will reprove him

2 Kings

one use
  • Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

    2 Kings 19:4

    • וְהוֹכִ֙יחַ֙vehokhiachHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will rebuke

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • And David went out to meet them, saying, “If you have come to me in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my enemies when my hands are free of violence, may the God of our fathers see it and judge you.”

    1 Chronicles 12:17

    • וְיוֹכַֽח׃ סveyokhachconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and may he judge
  • He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

    1 Chronicles 16:21

    • וַיּ֥וֹכַחvaiyokhachHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he rebuked

Job

seventeen uses
  • Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

    Job 5:17

    • יוֹכִחֶ֣נּֽוּyokhichenuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he reproves him
  • How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

    Job 6:25

    • יּוֹכִ֖יחַyokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does it prove
    • הוֹכֵ֣חַhokheachverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: completely to prove
  • Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

    Job 6:26

    • הַלְהוֹכַ֣חhalhokhachquestion particle + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: ¿ to reprove
  • Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

    Job 9:33

    • מוֹכִ֑יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: an arbiter
  • Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

    Job 13:3

    • וְהוֹכֵ֖חַvehokheachconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: and to argue
  • Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.

    Job 13:10

    • הוֹכֵ֣חַhokheachverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to rebuke
    • יוֹכִ֣יחַyokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will rebuke
  • Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

    Job 13:15

    • אוֹכִֽיחַ׃ʾokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will argue
  • Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

    Job 15:3

    • הוֹכֵ֣חַhokheachverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: does he argue
  • Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

    Job 16:21

    • וְיוֹכַ֣חveyokhachconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he may argue
  • If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

    Job 19:5

    • וְתוֹכִ֥יחוּvetokhichuHC/Vhu2mptagged: and you may argue
  • Is it for your reverence that He rebukes you and enters into judgment against you?

    Job 22:4

    • יֹכִיחֶ֑ךָyokhichekhaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: does he reprove you
  • Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

    Job 23:7

    • נוֹכָ֣חnokhachverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: reasoning
  • I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

    Job 32:12

    • מוֹכִ֑יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: rebuked
  • A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

    Job 33:19

    • וְהוּכַ֣חvehukhachHc/VHq3mstagged: and he is chastened
  • “Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”

    Job 40:2

    • מוֹכִ֖יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: corrects

Psalms

seven uses
  • O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

    Psalms 6:1

    • תוֹכִיחֵ֑נִיtokhicheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you rebuke me
  • O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

    Psalms 38:1

    • תוֹכִיחֵ֑נִיtokhicheniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you rebuke me
  • I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

    Psalms 50:8

    • אוֹכִיחֶ֑ךָʾokhichekhaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I rebuke you
  • You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

    Psalms 50:21

    • אוֹכִיחֲךָ֖ʾokhichakhaverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will rebuke you
  • He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?

    Psalms 94:10

    • יוֹכִ֑יחַyokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he rebuke
  • He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

    Psalms 105:14

    • וַיּ֖וֹכַחvaiyokhachHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he rebuked
  • Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.

    Psalms 141:5

    • וְֽיוֹכִיחֵ֗נִיveyokhicheniHC/Vhu3ms/Sp1bstagged: and let him rebuke me

Proverbs

ten uses
  • for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.

    Proverbs 3:12

    • יוֹכִ֑יחַyokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he reproves
  • He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.

    Proverbs 9:7

    • וּמוֹכִ֖יחַumokhiachconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and reproves
  • Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

    Proverbs 9:8

    • תּ֣וֹכַחtokhachverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you reprove
    • הוֹכַ֥חhokhachverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: reprove
  • A mocker does not love to be reproved, nor will he consult the wise.

    Proverbs 15:12

    • הוֹכֵ֣חַֽhokheachverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: reproof
  • Strike a mocker, and the simple will beware; rebuke the discerning man, and he will gain knowledge.

    Proverbs 19:25

    • וְהוֹכִ֥יחַvehokhiachconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to reprove
  • but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.

    Proverbs 24:25

    • וְלַמּוֹכִיחִ֥יםvelamokhichimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and for the rebuke
  • Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.

    Proverbs 25:12

    • מוֹכִ֥יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: reproves
  • He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.

    Proverbs 28:23

    • מ֘וֹכִ֤יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: reproves
  • Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.

    Proverbs 30:6

    • יוֹכִ֖יחַyokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he should rebuke

Isaiah

six uses
  • “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

    Isaiah 1:18

    • וְנִוָּֽכְחָ֖הvenivakhechahconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: so let us argue our case together
  • Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.

    Isaiah 2:4

    • וְהוֹכִ֖יחַvehokhiachHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will decide
  • And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

    Isaiah 11:3

    • יוֹכִֽיחַ׃yokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will decide
  • but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

    Isaiah 11:4

    • וְהוֹכִ֥יחַvehokhiachHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will decide
  • those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice.

    Isaiah 29:21

    • וְלַמּוֹכִ֥יחַvelamokhiachconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: and for the adjudicates
  • Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

    Isaiah 37:4

    • וְהוֹכִ֙יחַ֙vehokhiachHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will rebuke

Jeremiah

one use
  • Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

    Jeremiah 2:19

    • תּוֹכִחֻ֔ךְtokhichukhverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: they will rebuke you

Ezekiel

one use
  • I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

    Ezekiel 3:26

    • מוֹכִ֑יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: reproves

Hosea

one use
  • But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

    Hosea 4:4

    • יוֹכַ֣חyokhachverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he reprove

Amos

one use
  • There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

    Amos 5:10

    • מוֹכִ֑יחַmokhiachverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: reproves

Micah

two uses
  • Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.

    Micah 4:3

    • וְהוֹכִ֛יחַvehokhiachHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he will decide
  • Hear, O mountains, the LORD’s indictment, you enduring foundations of the earth. For the LORD has a case against His people, and He will argue it against Israel:

    Micah 6:2

    • יִתְוַכָּֽח׃yitvakachverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will argue

Habakkuk

one use
  • Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.

    Habakkuk 1:12

    • לְהוֹכִ֥יחַlehokhiachpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to reprove

The letters

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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