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reproach

Meaning of “reproach”

Sense 1: Shame, disgrace, dishonour, contempt, blame, reviling, or taunt. Sense 2: As a verb, to shame, insult, blame, or speak contemptuously against.

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88 occurrences86 verses22 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 30:23

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Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 14:34 · retained source text

Righteousnes exalteth a nation: but sinne is a reproch to any people.

1611 marginal noteHebr. to nations.

Proverbs 18:3
When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Proverbs 18:3 · retained source text

When the wicked commeth, then commeth also contempt, and with ignominie, reproch.

Proverbs 19:26
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Proverbs 19:26 · retained source text

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a sonne that causeth shame, and bringeth reproch.

Proverbs 22:10
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Proverbs 22:10 · retained source text

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall goe out; yea strife, and reproch shall cease.

1611 marginal notePsal.101.6

Isaiah 4:1
AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
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1611 witness · Isaiah 4:1 · retained source text

¶ And in that day seuen women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eate our owne bread, & weare our owne apparell: onely let vs be called by thy name, to take away our reproch.

1611 marginal noteHeb. let thy name be called vpon vs.

1611 marginal noteOr, take thou away.

Isaiah 30:5
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 30:5 · retained source text

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an helpe nor profite, but a shame and also a reproch.

Isaiah 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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 37:4 · retained source text

It may be the LORD thy God will heare the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproch the liuing God, and will reprooue the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift vp thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

1611 marginal noteHeb. found.

Isaiah 37:17
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 37:17 · retained source text

Encline thine eare, O LORD, and heare, Open thine eyes, O LORD, and see, and heare all the wordes of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproch the liuing God.

Isaiah 51:7
¶ Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 51:7 · retained source text

¶ Hearken vnto me ye that know righteousnesse, the people in whose heart is my Law: Feare ye not the reproch of men, neither be yee afraid of their reuilings.

1611 marginal notePsal.37.31.

1611 marginal noteMatth.10.27.

Isaiah 54:4
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 54:4 · retained source text

Feare not: for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded, for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

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