Mûwçâr — H4148

Definition

masculine noun

properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint

1. discipline, chastening, correction
1. discipline, correction
2. chastening

Usually translated as

instruction, correction, chastening, chastisement, bond, chasteneth, check, discipline, doctrine, rebuke

Origin

from H3256

• Derived from Yâçar (H3256)

Greek equivalents

• paideía (G3809)
• paideutḗs (G3810)
• sophía (G4678)

Occurrences

Mûwçâr occurs 50 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (1), Job (4), Psalms (1), Proverbs (30), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (8), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1), Zephaniah (2)

• Deuteronomy 11:2 — And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement (מוּסַ֖ר) of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
• Job 5:17 — Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening (וּמוּסַ֥ר) of the Almighty:
• Job 12:18 — He looseth the bond (מוּסַ֣ר) of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.
• Job 20:3 — I have heard the check (מוּסַ֣ר) of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
• Job 36:10 — He openeth also their ear to discipline (לַמּוּסָ֑ר), and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
• Psalms 50:17 — Seeing thou hatest instruction (מוּסָ֑ר), and castest my words behind thee.
• Proverbs 1:2 — To know wisdom and instruction (וּמוּסָ֑ר); to perceive the words of understanding;
• Proverbs 1:3 — To receive the instruction (מוּסַ֣ר) of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
• Proverbs 1:7 — The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction (וּ֝מוּסָ֗ר).
• Proverbs 1:8 — My son, hear the instruction (מוּסַ֣ר) of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Proverbs 3:11 — My son, despise not the chastening (מוּסַ֣ר) of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
• Proverbs 4:1 — Hear, ye children, the instruction (מ֣וּסַר) of a father, and attend to know understanding.
• Proverbs 4:13 — Take fast hold of instruction (בַּמּוּסָ֣ר); let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
• Proverbs 5:12 — And say, How have I hated instruction (מוּסָ֑ר), and my heart despised reproof;
• Proverbs 5:23 — He shall die without instruction (מוּסָ֑ר); and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
• Proverbs 6:23 — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction (מוּסָֽר) are the way of life:
• Proverbs 7:22 — He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction (מוּסַ֥ר) of the stocks;
• Proverbs 8:10 — Receive my instruction (מוּסָרִ֥י), and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
• Proverbs 8:33 — Hear instruction (מוּסָ֥ר), and be wise, and refuse it not.
• Proverbs 10:17 — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction (מוּסָ֑ר): but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
• Proverbs 12:1 — Whoso loveth instruction (מ֭וּסָר) loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Proverbs 13:1 — A wise son heareth his father’s instruction (מ֣וּסַר): but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
• Proverbs 13:18 — Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction (מוּסָ֑ר): but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
• Proverbs 13:24 — He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth (מוּסָֽר) him betimes.
• Proverbs 15:5 — A fool despiseth his father’s instruction (מוּסַ֣ר): but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
• Proverbs 15:10 — Correction (מוּסָ֣ר) is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
• Proverbs 15:32 — He that refuseth instruction (מ֭וּסָר) despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
• Proverbs 15:33 — The fear of the LORD is the instruction (מוּסַ֣ר) of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
• Proverbs 16:22 — Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction (וּמוּסַ֖ר) of fools is folly.
• Proverbs 19:20 — Hear counsel, and receive instruction (מוּסָ֑ר), that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
• Proverbs 19:27 — Cease, my son, to hear the instruction (מוּסָ֑ר) that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
• Proverbs 22:15 — Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction (מ֝וּסָ֗ר) shall drive it far from him.
• Proverbs 23:12 — Apply thine heart unto instruction (לַמּוּסָ֣ר), and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
• Proverbs 23:13 — Withhold not correction (מוּסָ֑ר) from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
• Proverbs 23:23 — Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction (וּמוּסָ֣ר), and understanding.
• Proverbs 24:32 — Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction (מוּסָֽר).
• Isaiah 26:16 — LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening (מוּסָרְךָ֖) was upon them.
• Isaiah 53:5 — But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement (מוּסַ֤ר) of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
• Jeremiah 2:30 — In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction (מוּסָ֖ר): your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jeremiah 5:3 — O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction (מוּסָ֑ר): they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Jeremiah 7:28 — But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction (מוּסָ֑ר): truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
• Jeremiah 10:8 — But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine (מוּסַ֥ר) of vanities.
• Jeremiah 17:23 — But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction (מוּסָֽר).
• Jeremiah 30:14 — All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement (מוּסַ֣ר) of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
• Jeremiah 32:33 — And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction (מוּסָֽר).
• Jeremiah 35:13 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction (מוּסָ֛ר) to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
• Ezekiel 5:15 — So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction (מוּסָ֣ר) and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
• Hosea 5:2 — And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker (מוּסָ֥ר) of them all.
• Zephaniah 3:2 — She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction (מוּסָ֑ר); she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
• Zephaniah 3:7 — I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction (מוּסָ֔ר); so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.