gaar · rebuke

What it means

gaar (גָּעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rebuke”.

Scold sternly.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To scold sharply, or halt with a command.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• rebuke ×6
• rebuked ×5
• He rebukes ×2
• am rebuking ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Ruth×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zechariah×2
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 37:10

  He told it to his father and to his brothers, and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall we indeed come, I and your mother and your brothers, to bow down before you to the ground?”

• Ruth 2:16

  And also pull out for her some from the bundles and leave them and let her glean them, and do not rebuke her.”

• Psalms 9:5

  You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; their name you have blotted out forever and ever.

• Psalms 68:30

  Rebuke the beast of the reeds, the community of bulls with the calves of the peoples, the one who humbles himself with pieces of silver; he has scattered the peoples who delight in battles.

• Psalms 106:9

  And he rebuked the Sea of Reeds, and it dried up; and he led them through the depths as through the wilderness.

• Psalms 119:21

  You have rebuked the insolent, the cursed, those who stray from your commandments.

• Isaiah 17:13

  The nations, like the uproar of many waters, resound; but he rebukes it, and it flees far away, and is chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like whirling dust before the storm wind.

• Isaiah 54:9

  “For like the waters of Noah is this to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah would not again pass over the earth, so I have sworn not to be angry with you or to rebuke you.

• Jeremiah 29:27

  And now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you?

• Nahum 1:4

  He rebukes the sea and dries it up, and all the rivers he drains; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the bloom of Lebanon withers.

• Zechariah 3:2

  And YHWH said to the Satan, “May YHWH rebuke you, Satan; and may YHWH rebuke you, he who has chosen Jerusalem. Is not this a brand snatched from the fire?”

• Malachi 2:3

  Look, I am rebuking the seed because of you, and I will scatter dung on your faces, the dung of your feasts; and one will carry you to it.

• Malachi 3:11

  And I will rebuke the devourer for you, and it will not destroy for you the fruit of the ground, and the vine in the field will not be barren for you, says YHWH Tsevaot.

And 1 more times.