Topic
Reproof; Reprove
7 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 6:25ISBE
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
- Job 6:26ISBE
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- 2 Maccabees 4:33ISBE
Which when Onias knew of a surety, he reproved him, and withdrew himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lieth by Antiochia.
- 2 Esdras 12:32ISBE
This is the anointed, which the Highest hath kept for them and for their wickedness unto the end: he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them with their cruelty.
- 2 Esdras 14:13ISBE
Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,
- John 16:8ISBE
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
- 2 Timothy 4:2ISBE
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
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
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.