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Strong's Number H3198

יָכַח

yakach · yaw-kahh'

Transliteration:

yakach{yaw-kahh'}

Word Origin:

a primitive root

TWOT:

865

Part of Speech:

verb

Strong's Definition:

to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict

Usage in the KJV:

reprove 23, rebuke 12, correct 3, plead 3, reason 3, chasten 2, reprover 376 1, appointed 2, arguing 1, misc 9

Total: 58
Occurs 59 times in the Hebrew text.

Definition:

to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right
1. (Hiphil)
  1. to decide, judge
  2. to adjudge, appoint
  3. to show to be right, prove
  4. to convince, convict
  5. to reprove, chide
  6. to correct, rebuke
2. (Hophal) to be chastened
3. (Niphal) to reason, reason together
4. (Hithp) to argue