geara · rebuke

What it means

geara (גְּעָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rebuke”.

A rebuke: a strong word that scolds or stops someone. Of God, the command before which the sea or the enemies draw back.

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. A sharp word that scolds or halts.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rebuke ×14
• threat ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×5

• 2 Samuel 22:16

  The channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare at the rebuke of YHWH, at the breath of the wind of his nostrils.

• Job 26:11

  The pillars of the heavens tremble, and are astonished at his rebuke.

• Psalms 18:15

  The channels of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, YHWH, at the breath of the wind of your nostrils.

• Psalms 76:6

  At your rebuke, Elohim of Jacob, fell into deep sleep both chariot and horse.

• Psalms 80:16

  It is burned with fire, cut down; at the rebuke of your face they perish.

• Psalms 104:7

  At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they hurried away.

• Proverbs 13:1

  A wise son hears the correction of a father, but a scoffer does not hear rebuke.

• Proverbs 13:8

  The ransom of the soul of a man is his riches, but the poor does not hear a threat.

• Proverbs 17:10

  A rebuke goes deeper into the discerning than a hundred blows into the senseless.

• Ecclesiastes 7:5

  Better to hear the rebuke of a wise man than to be a man who hears the song of the senseless.

• Isaiah 30:17

  One thousand will flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you will flee, until you are left like a flagpole on the top of the mountain, and like a banner on the hill.

• Isaiah 50:2

  Why did I come, and there was no one; I called, and there was no one to answer? Is my hand really too short to ransom? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

• Isaiah 51:20

  Your children have fainted; they lie at the corner of every street, like an antelope in a net, full of the fury of YHWH, of the rebuke of your Elohim.

• Isaiah 66:15

  For look, YHWH will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to pay back his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

And 1 more times.