Limitless Word
תּוֹכֵחָהtôwkêchâh/to-kay-khaw'/
HebrewH843328 occurrences (KJV)

chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)

KJV renders it: argument, [idiom] chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, [idiom] be (often) reproved.

Where it appears

  • 2 Kgs 19:3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
  • Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
  • Job 23:4I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
  • Ps 38:14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
  • Ps 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
  • Ps 73:14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
  • Ps 149:7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
  • Prov 1:23Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
  • Prov 1:25but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
  • Prov 1:30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
  • Prov 3:11My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
  • Prov 5:12and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Prov 6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
  • Prov 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
  • Prov 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Prov 13:18Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.
  • Prov 15:5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
  • Prov 15:10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
  • Prov 15:31The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.
  • Prov 15:32He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.
  • Prov 27:5Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
  • Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
  • Prov 29:15The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
  • Isa 37:3They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
  • Ezek 5:15So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes — I, Yahweh, have spoken it —
  • Ezek 25:17I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.
  • Hos 5:9Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
  • Hab 2:1I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

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