- Original: יכח - Transliteration: Yakach - Phonetic: yaw-kahh' - Definition: 1. to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right a. (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 b. (Hophal) to be chastened c. (Niphal) to reason, reason together d. (Hithp) to argue - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 865 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to be right (that is correct); reciprocally 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. Total KJV Occurrences: 59 • appointed, 1 Genesis 24:14 • arguing, 1 Job 6:25 • chasten, 1 2 Samuel 7:14 • chastened, 1 Job 33:19 • convinced, 1 Job 32:12 • correct, 1 Psalm 94:10 • correcteth, 2 Job 5:17; Proverbs 3:12 • correction, 1 Habakkuk 1:12 • daysman, 1 Job 9:33 • dispute, 1 Job 23:7 • judge, 1 Genesis 31:37 • maintain, 1 Job 13:15 • out, 1 Genesis 24:44 • plead, 3 Job 16:21; Job 19:5; Micah 6:2 • reason, 2 Job 13:3; Job 15:3 • rebuke, 9 Leviticus 19:17(2); 1 Chronicles 12:17; Psalm 6:1; Psalm 38:1; Proverbs 9:8; Proverbs 24:25; Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3 • rebuked, 1 Genesis 31:42 • rebuketh, 3 Proverbs 9:7; Proverbs 28:23; Amos 5:10 • reprove, 17 2 Kings 19:4; Job 6:25; Job 6:26; Job 13:10(2); Job 22:4; Psalm 50:8; Psalm 50:21; Psalm 141:5; Proverbs 9:8; Proverbs 19:25; Proverbs 30:6; Isaiah 11:3; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 37:4; Jeremiah 2:19; Hosea 4:4 • reproved, 4 Genesis 20:16; Genesis 21:25; 1 Chronicles 16:21; Psalm 105:14 • reprover, 2 Proverbs 25:12; Ezekiel 3:26 • reproveth, 3 Job 40:2; Proverbs 15:12; Isaiah 29:21 • together, 1 Isaiah 1:18