Definition

properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint

Etymology

from H3256 (יָסַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• bond
• chastening(-eth)
• chastisement
• check
• correction
• discipline
• doctrine
• instruction
• rebuke

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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