Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
rebuke
Usage: rebuke, correction, punishment, chastisement
Tokechah means “correction” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8433 תּוֹכֵחָה תּוֹכַחַת (towkechah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. towkechah (to-kay-khaw') (and towkachath {to-kakh'-ath}) n-f. 1. chastisement 2. figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence) It has 28 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include correction and words. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
towkechah (to-kay-khaw') (and towkachath {to-kakh'-ath}) n-f. 1. chastisement 2. figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence) [from H3198] KJV: argument, X chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, X be (often) reproved. Root(s): H3198
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rebuke
Usage: rebuke, correction, punishment, chastisement
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render towkechah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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28 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8433.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
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. I the LORD have spoken it.
And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8433, grouped by book.
Tokechah (Strong's H8433) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "correction". towkechah (to-kay-khaw') (and towkachath {to-kakh'-ath}) n-f. 1. chastisement 2. figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's H8433 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8433 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as correction and words. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.