Rebuke
תּוֹכֵחָהStrong’s H8433tokhechah (to-khe-chah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tokhechah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rebuke”, “correction” and “arguments”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.”
Meaning
- Rebuke, correction, punishment, chastisement
- Argument, reproofargument, impeachment · reproof, chiding · correction, rebuke
How it's translated
- and rebuke 4
- rebuke 4
- correction 4
- arguments 2
- and rebuke my 2
- argument my 1
- with rebukes 1
- punishment 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 16
- Psalms 4
- Job 2
- Ezekiel 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
- Job 23:4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- Psalms 38:14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 73:14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
- Psalms 149:7To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹכֵחָה tokhechah · rebuke
rebuke, correction, punishment, chastisement
תּוֹכַ֫חַת tokhachat · argument
1) argument, reproof 1a) argument, impeachment 1b) reproof, chiding 1c) correction, rebuke
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.