Reprove
Vine's Expository Dictionary of OT Words [1]
Yâkach ( יָכַח , Strong'S #3198), “to decide, prove, convince, judge.” As in biblical Hebrew, this verb is found in modern Hebrew primarily in the causative forms. It occurs some 60 times in the text of the Hebrew Bible. The first occurrence of the word is in Gen. 20:16, where the KJV translates: “… She was reproved.” The context indicates, however, that Abraham, Sarah’s husband, deserved being “reproved” in our modern meaning of the word, but that Sarah actually was “cleared” (NASB).
It is evident in most of the uses of yâkach that there is a value judgment involved, as in Ps. 50:21: “… I will reprove thee, and [lay the charge before thee].” Negative judgments may lead to reproof, especially by God (Job 5:17). Such divine reproof may be physical: “… I will chasten him with the rod of men …” (2 Sam. 7:14). But it is the conviction of the wise man that “the Lord reproves him whom he loves” (Prov. 3:12, RSV).
King James Dictionary [2]
Reprove, L reprobo re and probo, to prove.
1. To blame to censure.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Psalms 50 .
2. To charge with a fault to the face to chide to reprehend. Luke 3 . 3. To blame for with of as, to reprove one of laziness. 4. To convince of a fault, or to make it manifest.
John 16 .
5. To refute to disprove. Not in use. 6. To excite a sense of guilt. The heart or conscience reproves us. 7. To manifest silent disapprobation or blame.
The vicious cannot bear the presence of the good, whose very looks reprove them, and whose life is a severe, though silent admonition.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To disprove; to refute.
(2): ( v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
(3): ( v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.
(4): ( v. t.) To convince.
