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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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Ezekiel 36:30
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 36:30 · retained source text

And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that yee shall receiue no more reproch of famine among the heathen.

Daniel 9:16
¶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Daniel 9:16 · retained source text

¶ O LORD, according to all thy righteousnes, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy furie bee turned away from thy citie Ierusalem, thy holy Mountaine: because for our sinnes, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Ierusalem and thy people are become a reproch to all that are about vs.

Daniel 11:18
After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Daniel 11:18 · retained source text

After this shall he turne his face vnto the yles, and shall take many, but a prince for his own behalfe shall cause the reproch offred by him to cease without his owne reproch: he shall cause it to turne vpon him.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for him.

1611 marginal noteHeb his reproch.

Hosea 12:14
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Hosea 12:14 · retained source text

Ephraim prouoked him to anger, most bitterly: therefore shall he leaue his blood vpon him, and his reproch shall his LORD returne vnto him.

1611 marginal noteHebr. with bitternesses.

1611 marginal noteHebr. bloods.

Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Joel 2:17 · retained source text

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weepe betweene the porch and the altar, & let them say; Spare thy people O LORD, and giue not thine heritage to reproch; that the heathen should rule ouer them: Wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

1611 marginal noteOr, vse a byword against them.

1611 marginal notePsal.42.11. and 79.10. and 115 2.

Joel 2:19
Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Joel 2:19 · retained source text

Yea the LORD will answere and say vnto his people; Behold, I will send you corne and wine, and oyle, and yee shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproch among the heathen.

Micah 6:16
¶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Micah 6:16 · retained source text

¶ For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the workes of the house of Ahab, and ye walke in their counsels, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore yee shall beare the reproch of my people.

1611 marginal noteOr, he doth much keepe the &c.

1611 marginal noteOr, astonishment.

1611 marginal note1.Kin. 16.25, 26.

1611 marginal note1.Kin. 16.30, &c.

Zephaniah 2:8
¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Zephaniah 2:8 · retained source text

¶ I haue heard the reproach of Moab, and the reuilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they haue reproched my people, and magnified themselues against their border.

Zephaniah 3:18
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Zephaniah 3:18 · retained source text

I will gather them that are sorrowfull for the solemne assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproch of it was a burden.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the burden vpon it was reproch.

Luke 1:25
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Luke 1:25 · retained source text

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the dayes wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproch among men.

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