# תּוֹכֵחָה (tokhechah)

Israeli respelling: to-khe-chah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8433. 28 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: argument, [idiom] chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, [idiom] be (often) reproved.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tokhechah-h8433

## Occurrences

- [2 Kings 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/3) — And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the b…
- [Job 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/6) — Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
- [Job 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/4) — I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
- [Psalms 38:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/14) — Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
- [Psalms 39:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/11) — When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- [Psalms 73:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/14) — For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
- [Psalms 149:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/149/7) — To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
- [Proverbs 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/23) — Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
- [Proverbs 1:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/25) — But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- [Proverbs 1:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/30) — They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
- [Proverbs 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/3/11) — My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
- [Proverbs 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/12) — And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- [Proverbs 6:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/23) — For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- [Proverbs 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/17) — He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
- [Proverbs 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/1) — Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- [Proverbs 13:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/18) — Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
- [Proverbs 15:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/5) — A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
- [Proverbs 15:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/10) — Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
- [Proverbs 15:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/31) — The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
- [Proverbs 15:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/32) — He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
- [Proverbs 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/5) — Open rebuke is better than secret love.
- [Proverbs 29:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/1) — He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
- [Proverbs 29:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/15) — The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
- [Isaiah 37:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/3) — And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to th…
- [Ezekiel 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/15) — So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute…
- [Ezekiel 25:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/25/17) — And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance up…
- [Hosea 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/9) — Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
- [Habakkuk 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/1) — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am re…