Job 37:13
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
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2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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מוּסָר
mûwçâr · moo-sawr'
8 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
Strong's KJV usage: bond, chastening(-eth), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 7:22Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:2
Open full H4148 profile →ἐπανόρθωσις
epanórthōsis · ep-an-or'-tho-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a straightening up again, i.e. (figuratively) rectification (reformation)
Strong's KJV usage: :-- correction.
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 3:16Strong's last: 2 Timothy 3:16
Open full G1882 profile →יָכַח
yâkach · yaw-kahh'
1 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct(-ion), daysman, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove(-r), surely, in any wise.
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Strong's first: Habakkuk 1:12Strong's last: Habakkuk 1:12
Open full H3198 profile →שֵׁבֶט
shêbeṭ · shay'-bet
1 times translated as this KJV form189 total Strong's occurrences
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
Strong's KJV usage: × correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Strong's first: Job 37:13Strong's last: Job 37:13
Open full H7626 profile →תּוֹכֵחָה
tôwkêchâh · to-kay-khaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
Strong's KJV usage: argument, × chastened, correction, reasoning, rebuke, reproof, × be (often) reproved.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 3:11Strong's last: Proverbs 3:11
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H3198
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
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correction
CORRECTION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety; as the correction of opinions or manners.
All scripture is profitable for correction 2 Timothy 3:16.
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects.
Withhold not correction from the child. Proverbs 23:13.
5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.
They have refused to receive correction Jeremiah 5:3.
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction Proverbs 3:11.
6. Critical notice; animadversion.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as the correction of acidity in the stomach.
House of correction a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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