יָכַח
yâkach · yaw-kahh'
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
- to be right (i.e. correct)
- reciprocal, to argue
- causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the open hand that covers › to separate and protect
The hand that works of the open hand that covers that works to separate and protect.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָכַח above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
59 occurrences · 59 OT · 0 NT · 49 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- reprove3 · 9%
- rebuke3 · 9%
- yea, he reproved2 · 6%
- and will reprove2 · 6%
- and reprove2 · 6%
- thereon, and rebuke1 · 3%
- thou shalt in any wise1 · 3%
- reproved1 · 3%
- and rebuked1 · 3%
- he will surely1 · 3%
- yourselves against me, and plead1 · 3%
- i will chasten1 · 3%
- that they may judge1 · 3%
- correcteth1 · 3%
- there any daysman1 · 3%
- to reprove1 · 3%
- but what doth your arguing1 · 3%
- to reason1 · 3%
- hath appointed out1 · 3%
- in him: but i will maintain1 · 3%
- should he reason1 · 3%
- o that one might plead1 · 3%
- also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed1 · 3%
- will he reprove1 · 3%
- unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.