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Strong's numbers

יָכַח (H3198)

yâkach

yaw-kahh'

a primitive root; to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict; appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[יָכַח] vb. Hiph. decide, adjudge, prove
Hiph.
1 decide, judge
2 adjudge, appoint
3 shew to be right, prove
4 convince, convict
5 reprove, chide
6 correct, rebuke
Hoph. he is chastened also with pain
Niph. come now and let us reason together; there an upright man might reason with him; and thou art set right, righted, justified
Hithp. with Israel he will argue

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

55 occurrences

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  • 1 Chronicles 16:21
    He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
  • Job 5:17
    Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
  • Job 6:25
    How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
  • Job 6:26
    Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
  • Job 9:33
    Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
  • Job 13:3
    Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
  • Job 13:10
    He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
  • Job 13:15
    Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
  • Job 15:3
    Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
  • Job 16:21
    O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!