מוּסָר
musar · discipline, correction
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4148 · appears 50 times in the Bible
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musar (מוּסָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “discipline, correction”.
Discipline: teaching that straightens, sometimes with punishment; it comes from the verb "discipline."
How to say it
mu·sar
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
- Teaching that sets one straight, sometimes with punishment.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
Correction: the teaching that straightens someone, with words or with punishment. It comes from the verb יָסַר, ‘correct, discipline’ (H3256). In Proverbs it goes together with wisdom as something one receives or despises.
- Receiving or despising correction Proverbs 1:7Proverbs 3:11Jeremiah 7:28
- The father’s correction: the rod Proverbs 13:24Proverbs 22:15
- “To know wisdom and correction” Proverbs 1:2Proverbs 4:13
- The correction of YHWH Deuteronomy 11:2Job 5:17
- “The correction of our peace” Isaiah 53:5
How we translate it
“Correction” 47 times, also in Isaiah 53:5, where a note explains that “the correction of our peace” can be understood as the punishment that brought us peace; “discipline” in Deuteronomy 11:2 and once more. In Job 12:18 it is rendered “He loosens the restraint of kings”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- correction ×47
- discipline ×2
- restraint ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 11:2
Know today —for I am not speaking with your children, who have not known and who have not seen— the discipline of YHWH your Elohim, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm,
- Job 5:17
Look, happy is the mortal whom Eloah reproves; so do not despise the correction of Shaddai.
- Job 12:18
He loosens the restraint of kings, and binds a belt on their loins.
- Job 20:3
A correction that shames me I hear, and a spirit from my understanding answers me.
- Job 36:10
And he uncovers their ear to correction, and says that they should turn back from wickedness.
- Psalms 50:17
For you hate correction, and you cast my words behind you.
- Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and correction, to understand the sayings of understanding;
- Proverbs 1:3
to receive the correction of prudence, righteousness, justice, and uprightness;
- Proverbs 1:7
The fear of YHWH is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and correction fools despise.
- Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, the correction of your father, and do not abandon the instruction of your mother;
- Proverbs 3:11
The correction of YHWH, my son, do not reject, and do not grow weary of his reproof;
- Proverbs 4:1
Hear, sons, the correction of a father, and be attentive to know understanding.
- Proverbs 4:13
Take hold of correction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
- Proverbs 5:12
and you say, “How I hated correction, and my heart spurned reproof!
- Proverbs 5:23
He will die for lack of correction, and in the greatness of his folly he will be lost.
- Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the instruction a light, and the reproofs of correction are the way of life,
- Proverbs 7:22
He goes after her suddenly, as an ox to the slaughter goes, and as one in fetters to the correction goes the fool,
- Proverbs 8:10
Receive my correction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
- Proverbs 8:33
Listen to correction and be wise, and do not ignore it.
- Proverbs 10:17
He who keeps correction is a path to life, but he who abandons reproof leads astray.
- Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but whoever hates reproof is brutish.
- Proverbs 13:1
A wise son hears the correction of a father, but a scoffer does not hear rebuke.
- Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and disgrace come to whoever ignores correction, but whoever heeds reproof will be honored.
- Proverbs 13:24
Whoever holds back his rod hates his son, but whoever loves him eagerly gives him correction.
- Proverbs 15:5
A fool spurns the correction of his father, but whoever heeds reproof becomes shrewd.
- Proverbs 15:10
Harsh correction is for whoever abandons the path; whoever hates reproof will die.
- Proverbs 15:32
Whoever ignores correction despises his soul, but whoever listens to reproof acquires sense.
- Proverbs 15:33
The fear of YHWH is the correction of wisdom, and before honor comes humility.
- Proverbs 16:22
A fountain of life is prudence to those who have it, but the correction of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive correction, so that you may become wise in your end.
- Proverbs 19:27
Stop, my son, listening to correction only to stray from the sayings of knowledge.
- Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound to the heart of a young man; the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
- Proverbs 23:12
Bring your heart to correction, and your ears to the sayings of knowledge.
- Proverbs 23:13
Do not withhold correction from a young man; if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.
- Proverbs 23:23
Buy truth, and do not sell it; wisdom, correction, and understanding.
- Proverbs 24:32
And I looked; I set my heart to it; I saw; I received correction.
- Isaiah 26:16
YHWH, in distress they turned to you; they poured out a whisper; your correction was on them.
- Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; the correction of our peace was upon him, and by his wound we were healed.
- Jeremiah 2:30
In vain I struck your children; correction they did not accept; your sword devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.
- Jeremiah 5:3
YHWH, are not your eyes on faithfulness? You struck them, but they did not feel pain; you consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They made their faces harder than rock; they refused to return.
And 10 more times.