נְכֹחָה
nechocha · what is straight, right
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5229 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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nechocha (נְכֹחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “what is straight, right”.
What goes straight without turning aside; honesty.
How to say it
ne·cho·cha
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
- What accords with justice.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- uprightness ×2
- what is right ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 26:10
Though the wicked is shown favor, he does not learn righteousness; in a land of uprightness he acts perversely, and does not see the loftiness of YHWH.
- Isaiah 30:10
who say to those who see, “Do not see,” and to the seers, “Do not see visions for us of what is right; speak to us smooth things, see visions of deceptions;
- Isaiah 59:14
And justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off; for truth has stumbled in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.
- Amos 3:10
And they do not know how to do what is right, declares YHWH, those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.