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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

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Job 19:5
    If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
  • Job 22:4
    Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?
  • Job 23:7
    There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
  • Job 32:12
    Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
  • Job 33:19
    He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
  • Job 40:2
    Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
  • Psalms 6:1
    To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Psalms 38:1
    A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Psalms 50:8
    I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
  • Psalms 50:21
    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.