Words the Bible translates as correction
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- musarמוּסָרdiscipline: the corrective training, by teaching or by hardship, that shapes a person toward wisdom and right living
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- a bond or fetter: a physical restraint, in the few places where the word is read from a separate root meaning to bind
- tokhaḥatתּוֹכַחַתa corrective rebuke: words (or the discipline behind them) meant to confront a person and set them right
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- an argument: the reasoned case a person lays out to defend a position in a dispute
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