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# גְּעָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1606

**rebuke** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

rebuke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1606/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּעָרָה: n.f. rebuke [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1606/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. rebuke—Pr 13:1 + 2 times; גַּעֲרַת Ec 7:5 + 5 times; sf. גַּעֲרָֽתְךָ ψ 18:16 + (sfs. 6 times);— of man Pr 13:1, 8; 17:10 Ec 7:5 Is 30:17(×2). of God Jb 26:11 ψ 18:16 (= 2 S 22:16) 76:7; 80:17; 104:7 Is 50:2; 51:20; 66:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rebuke (6); the rebuke (3); \[the\] threat (2).

## In the verses

[Job 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.11/#tree)

עַמּוּדֵ֣י שָׁמַ֣יִם יְרוֹפָ֑פוּ וְ֝יִתְמְה֗וּ מִגַּעֲרָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].pillars of.heaven they.shake and they.are.astonished from rebuke his

*JPS 1917:* The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at His rebuke.

[Proverbs 17:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.17.10/#tree)

תֵּ֣חַת גְּעָרָ֣ה בְמֵבִ֑ין מֵהַכּ֖וֹת כְּסִ֣יל מֵאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.goes.down a.rebuke in \[one.who\].has.understanding more than.striking a.fool a.hundred.\[times\]

*JPS 1917:* A rebuke entereth deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1606.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1606/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).