Discipline
מוּסָרStrong’s H4148musar (mu-sar)
Appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Musar is the Hebrew word usually translated “discipline”, “correction” and “correction of”. It appears in 50 verses of the Old Testament.
“And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,”
Meaning
- Discipline, chastening, correctiondiscipline, correction · chastening
How it's translated
- discipline 13
- correction 11
- correction of 8
- and discipline 3
- discipline of 3
- and discipline of 2
- chastening of 2
- training of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 30
- Jeremiah 8
- Job 4
- Isaiah 2
- Zephaniah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- Job 12:18He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
- Job 20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
- Job 36:10He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
- Psalms 50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
- Proverbs 1:2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
All 50 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מוּסָר musar · discipline
: discipline/punishment 1) discipline, chastening, correction 1a) discipline, correction 1b) chastening
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “discipline” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISCIPLINE, noun
[Latin, to learn.]
- Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.
- Instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; as military discipline which includes instruction in manual exercise, evolutions and subordination.
- Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as the discipline prescribed for the church.
- Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations; as, the troops are under excellent discipline; the passions should be kept under strict discipline
All definitions and other forms of “discipline”
- Correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; as the discipline of the strap.
- In ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders, who profess the religion of Jesus Christ.
- Chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent in the Romish Church; or that chastisement or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself.
DISCIPLINE, verb transitive
- To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.
- To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.
- To correct; to chastise; to punish.
- To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.
- To advance and prepare by instruction.
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.