Limitless Word
יָכַחyâkach/yaw-kahh'/
HebrewH319858 occurrences (KJV)

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

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

Where it appears(showing the first 54 of 58)

  • Gen 20:16To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”
  • Gen 21:25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
  • Gen 24:14Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’ — 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.”
  • Gen 24:44and she will tell me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,” — let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’
  • Gen 31:37Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.
  • Gen 31:42Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”
  • Lev 19:17“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
  • 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
  • 2 Kgs 19:4It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
  • 1 Chr 12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
  • 1 Chr 16:21He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
  • Job 5:17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
  • Job 6:25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
  • Job 6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
  • Job 9:33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
  • Job 13:3“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
  • Job 13:10He will surely reprove you, if you secretly show partiality.
  • Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
  • Job 15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
  • Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
  • Job 19:5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
  • Job 22:4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
  • Job 23:7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
  • Job 32:12Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
  • Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
  • Job 40:2“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
  • Ps 6:1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
  • Ps 38:1A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
  • Ps 50:8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
  • Ps 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Ps 94:10He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
  • Ps 105:14He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
  • Ps 141:5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
  • Prov 3:12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
  • Prov 9:7He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
  • Prov 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Prov 15:12A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
  • Prov 19:25Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
  • Prov 24:25but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.
  • Prov 25:12As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
  • Prov 28:23One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
  • Prov 30:6Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
  • Isa 1:18“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  • Isa 2:4He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
  • Isa 11:3His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;
  • Isa 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
  • Isa 29:21who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
  • Isa 37:4It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
  • Jer 2:19“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Hos 4:4“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
  • Amos 5:10They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
  • Mic 4:3and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
  • Mic 6:2Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
  • Hab 1:12Aren’t you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.