# H8433 תּוֹכֵחָה

תּוֹכֵחָה (tôwkêchâh), Strong’s H8433: chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence) KJV: argument, [idiom] chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof…

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*tôwkêchâh* — chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)

KJV: argument, [idiom] chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, [idiom] be…

Derived from [יָכַח yâkach](https://besorah.bible/word/H3198) (to be right)

Occurs 28 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תּוֹכֵחָה n.f. rebuke, correction
- תּוֹכַ֫חַת n.f
- תּוֹכַ֫חַת n.f. argument, reproof
- 1 argument, impeachment, spoken by lips and mouth
- 2 reproof, chiding
- 3 correction, rebuke

## Where it occurs
- [2 Kings 19:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/19?v=3) — They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come…
- [Isaiah 37:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/37?v=3) — They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have…
- [Ezekiel 5:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/5?v=15) — So it will be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are around you, when I…
- [Ezekiel 25:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/25?v=17) — I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my…
- [Hosea 5:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/5?v=9) — Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will…
- [Habakkuk 2:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/2?v=1) — I will stand at my watch and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I…
- [Psalms 38:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/38?v=15) — Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- [Psalms 39:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=12) — When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”…
- [Psalms 73:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/73?v=14) — For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
- [Psalms 149:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/149?v=7) — to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;