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20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.†
Book 1.

reproved = criticized
21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.†
Book 1. *
19:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.†
Book 12.

reprove = criticize
16:20 And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people; 16:21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, 16:22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.†
Book 13.

reproved = criticized
but what doth your arguing reprove?†
Book 18.

reprove = criticize
6:26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?†
Book 18.
13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.†
Book 18.
22:4 Will he reprove thee for fear of thee?†
Book 18.
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.†
Book 18.

reproof = criticism
he that reproveth God, let him answer it.†
Book 18.

reproveth = criticisms

standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She reproveth" in older English, today we say "She reproves."
38:14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.†
Book 19.

reproofs = criticisms
50:8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.†
Book 19.

reprove = criticize
50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.†
Book 19.
105:13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people; 105:14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; 105:15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.†
Book 19.

reproved = criticized
141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.†
Book 19.

reprove = criticize
1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.†
Book 20.

reproof = criticism
1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.†
Book 20.
1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.†
Book 20.
5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!†
Book 20.
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.†
Book 20.

reproofs = criticisms
9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.†
Book 20.

reproveth = criticisms

standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She reproveth" in older English, today we say "She reproves."
9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.†
Book 20.

reprove = criticize
10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.†
Book 20.

reproof = criticism
12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.†
Book 20.
13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.†
Book 20.
15:5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.†
Book 20.
15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.†
Book 20.
15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.†
Book 20.

reproveth = criticisms

standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She reproveth" in older English, today we say "She reproves."
15:31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.†
Book 20.

reproof = criticism
15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.†
Book 20.
17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.†
Book 20.
19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.†
Book 20.

reprove = criticize
25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.†
Book 20.

reprover = someone who criticizes
29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.†
Book 20.

reproved = criticized
29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.†
Book 20.

reproof = criticism
30:6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.†
Book 20.

reprove = criticize
11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.†
Book 23.
11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 11:3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.†
Book 23.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.†
Book 23.

reproveth = criticisms

standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She reproveth" in older English, today we say "She reproves."
37:4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.†
Book 23.

reprove = criticize
2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.†
Book 24.
29:27 Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?†
Book 24.

reproved = criticized
3:25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: 3:26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.†
Book 26.

reprover = someone who criticizes
4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.†
Book 28.

reprove = criticize
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 reproved.†
Book 35.

reproved = criticized

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(1) (reprove)
express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely (though often from Shakespeare), the form reproof describes punishment rather than merely criticism.

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