tochecha · rebuke, reproof, argument

What it means

tochecha (תּוֹכֵחָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rebuke, reproof, argument”.

Rebuke, correction: words that show someone his fault (Proverbs 1:23; 3:11); also an argument in one's defense. "A day of rebuke" is a day of punishment (2 Kings 19:3; Hosea 5:9).

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. Words that correct a fault.
2. The reasons someone presents to defend his cause before another.
3. The punishment by which a fault is corrected or paid.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• reproof ×16
• rebuke ×3
• rebukes ×3
• arguments ×2
• reproofs ×2
• argument ×1
• punishments ×1

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×16
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Habakkuk×1

• 2 Kings 19:3

  They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of contempt; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

• Job 13:6

  Hear, please, my argument, and to the contentions of my lips pay attention.

• Job 23:4

  I would lay out my case before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

• Psalms 38:14

  And I am like a man who does not hear, and there are no arguments in his mouth.

• Psalms 39:11

  With rebukes for iniquity you correct a man, and you melt away like a moth what he treasures; only a vapor is every human being. Selah.

• Psalms 73:14

  And I have been struck all the day, and my reproof comes every morning.

• Psalms 149:7

  to execute vengeance on the nations, punishments on the peoples,

• Proverbs 1:23

  Turn to my reproof; look, I will pour out on you my spirit; I will make known my words to you.

• Proverbs 1:25

  and you ignored all my counsel, and my reproof you did not want,

• Proverbs 1:30

  they would not accept my counsel; they spurned all my reproof.

• Proverbs 3:11

  The correction of YHWH, my son, do not reject, and do not grow weary of his reproof;

• Proverbs 5:12

  and you say, “How I hated correction, and my heart spurned reproof!

• 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 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 13:18

  Poverty and disgrace come to whoever ignores correction, but whoever heeds reproof will be honored.

• 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 15:31

  The ear that listens to the reproof of life will dwell in the midst of the wise.

• Proverbs 15:32

  Whoever ignores correction despises his soul, but whoever listens to reproof acquires sense.

• Proverbs 27:5

  Better is open reproof than hidden love.

• Proverbs 29:1

  A man of reproofs who hardens his neck will suddenly be broken, and there will be no healing.

• Proverbs 29:15

  The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a young man left to himself shames his mother.

• Isaiah 37:3

  They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of contempt; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

• Ezekiel 5:15

  And it will be a reproach and a taunt, a correction and a horror to the nations that are around you, when I carry out judgments on you in anger and in fury and with rebukes of fury. I, YHWH, have spoken.

• Ezekiel 25:17

  And I will execute on them great vengeances with rebukes of fury; and they will know that I am YHWH, when I lay my vengeance on them.’”

• Hosea 5:9

  Ephraim will become a desolation on the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I have made known what is sure.

• Habakkuk 2:1

  At my guard post I will stand, and station myself on the fortification, and I will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my reproof.