Tôwkêchâh — H8433

Definition

feminine noun

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

1. rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement
2. argument, reproof
1. argument, impeachment
2. reproof, chiding
3. correction, rebuke

Usually translated as

reproof, rebuke, reproved, chastened, correction, reasoning, argument, be

Origin

and tôwkachath; from H3198

• Derived from Yâkach (H3198)

Greek equivalents

• ekdíkēsis (G1557)
• élenchos (G1650)
• entolḗ (G1785)
• oneidismós (G3680)
• paideía (G3809)

Occurrences

Tôwkêchâh occurs 28 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (1), Job (2), Psalms (4), Proverbs (16), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (2), Hosea (1), Habakkuk (1)

• 2 Kings 19:3 — And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke (וְתוֹכֵחָ֛ה), and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
• Job 13:6 — Hear now my reasoning (תוֹכַחְתִּ֑י), and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
• Job 23:4 — I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments (תוֹכָחֽוֹת).
• Psalms 38:14 — Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs (תּוֹכָחֽוֹת).
• Psalms 39:11 — When thou with rebukes (בְּֽתוֹכָ֘ח֤וֹת) dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
• Psalms 73:14 — For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened (וְ֝תוֹכַחְתִּ֗י) every morning.
• Psalms 149:7 — To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments (תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת) upon the people;
• Proverbs 1:23 — Turn you at my reproof (לְֽת֫וֹכַחְתִּ֥י): behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
• Proverbs 1:25 — But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof (וְ֝תוֹכַחְתִּ֗י):
• Proverbs 1:30 — They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof (תּוֹכַחְתִּֽי).
• Proverbs 3:11 — My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction (בְּתוֹכַחְתּֽוֹ):
• Proverbs 5:12 — And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof (וְ֝תוֹכַ֗חַת);
• Proverbs 6:23 — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs (תּוֹכְח֥וֹת) of instruction are the way of life:
• Proverbs 10:17 — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof (תּוֹכַ֣חַת) erreth.
• Proverbs 12:1 — Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof (תוֹכַ֣חַת) is brutish.
• Proverbs 13:18 — Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof (תּוֹכַ֣חַת) shall be honoured.
• Proverbs 15:5 — A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof (תּוֹכַ֣חַת) is prudent.
• Proverbs 15:10 — Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof (תוֹכַ֣חַת) shall die.
• Proverbs 15:31 — The ear that heareth the reproof (תּוֹכַ֣חַת) of life abideth among the wise.
• Proverbs 15:32 — He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof (תּ֝וֹכַ֗חַת) getteth understanding.
• Proverbs 27:5 — Open rebuke (תּוֹכַ֣חַת) is better than secret love.
• Proverbs 29:1 — He, that being often reproved (תּ֭וֹכָחוֹת) hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Proverbs 29:15 — The rod and reproof (וְ֭תוֹכַחַת) give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
• Isaiah 37:3 — And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke (וְתוֹכֵחָ֛ה), and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
• Ezekiel 5:15 — So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction 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 (וּבְתֹכְח֣וֹת). I the LORD have spoken it.
• Ezekiel 25:17 — And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes (בְּתוֹכְח֖וֹת); and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
• Hosea 5:9 — Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke (תּֽוֹכֵחָ֑ה): among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
• Habakkuk 2:1 — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved (תּוֹכַחְתִּֽי).