To rebuke
גָּעַרStrong’s H1605gaar (ga-ar)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gaar is the Hebrew word usually translated “rebuked”, “must rebuke” and “have rebuked”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?”
Meaning
- (Qal) to rebuke, reprove, corrupt
How it's translated
- and he rebuked 2
- you must rebuke 1
- you have rebuked 1
- rebuke 1
- you rebuke 1
- and he will rebuke 1
- and from rebuking 1
- have you rebuked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Isaiah 2
- Malachi 2
- Genesis 1
- Ruth 1
- Jeremiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
- Ruth 2:16And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
- Psalms 9:5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
- Psalms 68:30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.
- Psalms 106:9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
- Psalms 119:21Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּעַר gaar · to rebuke
(Qal) to rebuke, reprove, corrupt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rebuke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REBU'KE, verb transitive
[See Pack and Impeach.]
- To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof.“Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor” Leviticus 19:17
- To check or restrain.“The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan” Zechariah 3:2
- To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.“O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger” Psalms 6:1
- To check; to silence.“Master, rebuke thy disciples” Luke 19:39
All definitions and other forms of “rebuke”
- To check; to heal.“And he stood over her and rebuked the fever” Luke 4:39
- To restrain; to calm.“He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea” Matthew 8:26
REBU'KE, noun
- A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension.
- In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. Ezekiel 5:15
- In low language, any kind of check.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.