All 21 Uses
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- 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.†
Chpt 1 *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.†
Chpt 1
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- 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!†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 6reproofs = criticisms
- 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.†
Chpt 9reproveth = criticismsstandard 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.†
Chpt 9reprove = criticize
- 10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.†
Chpt 10reproof = criticism
- 12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.†
Chpt 12
- 13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.†
Chpt 13
- 15:5 A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.†
Chpt 15
- 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.†
Chpt 15
- 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.†
Chpt 15reproveth = criticismsstandard 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.†
Chpt 15reproof = criticism
- 15:32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.†
Chpt 15
- 17:10 A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.†
Chpt 17
- 19:25 Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.†
Chpt 19reprove = criticize
- 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.†
Chpt 25reprover = someone who criticizes
- 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.†
Chpt 29reproved = criticized
- 29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.†
Chpt 29reproof = criticism
- 30:6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.†
Chpt 30reprove = criticize
Definitions:
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(1)
(reprove) express disapproval or criticism -- typically in a mild manner & sometimes even in a friendly manner
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (though often from Shakespeare), the form reproof describes punishment rather than merely criticism.