H3198 יָכַח
yâkach — to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
KJV: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain…
Occurs 59 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [יָכַח] vb. Hiph. decide, adjudge, prove
- Hiph.
- 1 decide, judge
- 2 adjudge, appoint
- 3 shew to be right, prove
- 4 convince, convict
- 5 reprove, chide
- 6 correct, rebuke
- Hoph. he is chastened also with pain
- Niph. come now and let us reason together; there an upright man might reason with him; and thou art set right, righted, justified
- Hithp. with Israel he will argue
Where it occurs
- Genesis 20:16 — To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of…
- Genesis 21:25 — Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Genesis 24:14 — Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says…
- Genesis 24:44 — then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for…
- Genesis 31:37 — Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my…
- Genesis 31:42 — Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have…
- Leviticus 19:17 — “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
- 2 Samuel 7:14 — I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with…
- 2 Kings 19:4 — It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy…
- Isaiah 1:18 — “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…