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# תּוֹכֵחָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8433

**rebuke** — used 4 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/1514/8433/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹכֵחָה: n.f. rebuke, correction [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8433/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. rebuke, correction;—יום ׳ת Ho 5:9; יום צרה ות׳ 2 K 19:3 = Is 37:3; pl. תּוֹכֵחוֹת ψ 149:7 (‖ נקמה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: rebuke (2); of rebuke (1); rebukes (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 149:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.149.7/#tree)

לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת נְ֭קָמָה בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹכֵחֹ֗ת בַּל־אֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* to execute vengeance on the nations rebukes not peoples

*JPS 1917:* To execute vengeance upon the nations, and chastisements upon the peoples;

[Hosea 5:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.5.9/#tree)

אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה תִֽהְיֶ֔ה בְּי֖וֹם תּֽוֹכֵחָ֑ה בְּשִׁבְטֵי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל הוֹדַ֖עְתִּי נֶאֱמָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Ephraim (into).a waste it.will.become on.\[the\] day of.rebuke among the.tribes of.Israel I.make.known \[that.which.is\].trustworthy

*JPS 1917:* Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel do I make known that which shall surely be.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8433.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8433/): 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).