# H3198 יָכַח

יָכַח (yâkach), Strong’s H3198: to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict KJV: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/20?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=25) — Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- [Genesis 24:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/7?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/19?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=18) — “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…