Rebuke

Rebuke - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REBU'KE, v.t. [See Pack and Impeach.]

1. To chide; to reprove; to reprehend for a fault; to check by reproof.

The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, not to rebuke the rich offender fear'd.

Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor. Lev 19.

2. To check or restrain.

The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan. Zec 3. Isa 17.

3. To chasten; to punish; to afflict for correction.

O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger. Psa 6.

4. To check; to silence.

Master, rebuke thy disciples. Luke 19.

5. To check; to heal.

And he stood over her and rebuked the fever. Luke 4.

6. To restrain; to calm.

He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea. Mat 8.

REBU'KE, n.

1. A chiding; reproof for faults; reprehension.

Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?

2. In Scripture, chastisement; punishment; affliction for the purpose of restraint and correction. Ezek 5. Hosea 5.

3. In low language, any kind of check.

To suffer rebuke, to endure the reproach and persecution of men. Jer 15.

To be without rebuke, to live without giving cause of reproof or censure; to be blameless.

Reproof - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REPROOF', n. [from reprove.

1. Blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; reprehension.

Those best can bear reproof, who merit praise.

He that hateth reproof is brutish. Prov 12.

2. Blame cast; censure directed to a person.

Reprove - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

REPROVE, v.t. [L. reprobo; re and probo, to prove.]

1. To blame; to censure.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices - Psa 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.

re-buk': As a verb "rebuke" is in the Old Testament the translation of ga`ar and yakhach; another word, ribh, in Ne 5:7, is in the Revised Version (British and American) translated "contended with." "Rebuke" (noun) is most frequently the translation of ge`arah; also in the King James Version of cherpah (Isa 25:8; Jer 15:15, the Revised Version (British and American) "reproach"), and of a few other words signifying reproach, etc. "Rebuker" (mucar, literally, "correction," "chastisement") in Ho 5:2 has the Revised Version margin "Hebrew `rebuke.'" In the New Testament "to rebuke" is most often the translation of epitimao (Mt 8:26; 16:22; 17:18, etc.); also in the King James Version of elegcho, always in the Revised Version (British and American) rendered "reprove" (1Ti 5:20; Tit 1:13; 2:15; Heb 12:5; Re 3:19). Another word is epipletto (once, 1Ti 5:1); "without rebuke" in Php 2:15 is in the Revised Version (British and American) "without blemish." On the other hand, the Revised Version (British and American) has "rebuke" for several words in the King James Version, as for "reprove" (2Ki 19:4; Isa 37:4), "reproof" (Job 26:11; Pr 17:10), "charged" (Mr 10:48). In Isa 2:4; Mic 4:3, the English Revised Version has "reprove" for "rebuke," and in the margin "decide concerning," which is text in the American Standard Revised Version. In Ecclesiasticus 11:7 we have the wise counsel: "Understand first, and then rebuke" (epitimao).

W. L. Walker

re-proof', re-proov': "Reprove" in Elizabethan English had a variety of meanings ("reject" "disprove" "convince," "rebuke"), with "put to the proof" (see 2Ti 4:2 the Revised Version margin) as the force common to all, although in modern English the word means only "rebuke" (with a connotation of deliberateness). the King James Version uses the word chiefly (and the Revised Version (British and American) exclusively, except in 2 Esdras 12:32; 14:13; 2 Macc 4:33) for yakhach, and elegcho, words that have very much the same ambiguities of meaning. Hence, a fairly easy rendition into English was possible, but the result included all the ambiguities of the original, and to modern readers such a passage as "But your reproof, what doth it reprove? Do ye think to reprove words" (Job 6:25,26 the American Standard Revised Version) is virtually incomprehensible. The meaning is, approximately: "What do your rebukes prove? Are you quibbling about words?" In Joh 16:8 no single word in modern English will translate elegcho, and "reprove" (the King James Version), "convince" (King James Version margin), and "convict" (Revised Version) are all unsatisfactory. The sense is: "The Spirit will teach men the true meaning of these three words: sin, righteousness, judgment."

Burton Scott Easton

Definition

The term “rebuke” refers to correcting someone verbally, usually with sternness or force.

• The New Testament commands Christians to rebuke other believers when they are clearly disobeying God.
• The book of Proverbs instructs parents to rebuke their children when they are disobedient.
• A rebuke is typically given to prevent those who committed a wrong from further involving themselves in sin.
• This could be translated by “sternly correct” or “admonish.”
• The phrase “a rebuke” could be translated by “a stern correction” or “a strong criticism.”
• “Without rebuke” could be translated as “without admonishing” or “without criticism.”

(See also admonish, disobey)

Bible References

• Genesis 21:25
• Mark 1:23-26
• Mark 16:14
• Matthew 8:26-27
• Matthew 17:17-18

Word Data

• Strong’s: H1605, H1606, H2778, H2781, H3198, H4045, H4148, H8156, H8433, G16490, G16510, G19690, G20080, G36790