תּוֹכַחַת tokhachat

Hebrew word for “argument” · Strong’s H8433 · used 28 times in 28 verses

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Meaning

1) argument, reproof; 1a) argument, impeachment; 1b) reproof, chiding; 1c) correction, rebuke

Senses in the lexicon

• argument (24)
• rebuke (4)

How it is translated

Glosses given for tokhachat in context, with how often each is used:

• rebuke 13
• rebukes 5
• correction 5
• arguments 2
• argument 1
• complaint 1
• punishments 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Proverbs 15 (4), Proverbs 1 (3), Proverbs 29 (2), 2 Kings 19 (1), Job 13 (1), Job 23 (1), Psalms 38 (1), Psalms 39 (1), Psalms 73 (1), Psalms 149 (1)

Forms

• תוכחת 9
• תוכחות 4
• תוכחתי 3
• בתוכחות 2
• ותוכחתי 2
• ותוכחת 2
• ותוכחה 2
• לתוכחתי 1
• בתוכחתו 1
• ובתכחות 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tokhachat more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מוּסָר musar “discipline” 10
• פָּרַע para “to neglect” 3
• נָאַץ naats “to spurn” 3
• מַשְׁבֵּר mishber “birth” 2
• נֶאָצָה neatsah “contempt” 2
• שָׂנֵא sane “to hate” 3
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 4
• נְקָמָה neqamah “vengeance” 2
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 4
• אָבָה avah “be willing” 2
• אֹרַח orach “way” 2
• שָׁמַר shamar “to keep” 3

Key verses

The verses using tokhachat that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Psalms 39:11 — 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.
• Proverbs 1:23 — Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
• Proverbs 3:11 — My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
• Proverbs 5:12 — And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• Proverbs 6:23 — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
• Proverbs 12:1 — Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Proverbs 15:5 — A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
• Proverbs 15:32 — He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
• Proverbs 29:1 — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
• Proverbs 29:15 — The rod and reproof 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, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there…
• 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.