{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3198",
  "lemma": "יָכַח",
  "transliteration": "yâkach",
  "definition": "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…",
  "occurrences": 59,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 20:16",
      "text": "To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 21:25",
      "text": "Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:14",
      "text": "Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:44",
      "text": "then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=44"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:37",
      "text": "Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=37"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:42",
      "text": "Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 19:17",
      "text": "“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 7:14",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/7?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 19:4",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/19?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 1:18",
      "text": "“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=18"
    }
  ],
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