- Original: גּער - Transliteration: Ga`ar - Phonetic: gaw-ar' - Definition: 1. (Qal) to rebuke, reprove, corrupt - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 370 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to chide: - corrupt rebuke reprove. Total KJV Occurrences: 14 • corrupt, 1 Malachi 2:3 • rebuke, 7 Ruth 2:16; Psalm 68:30; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 54:9; Zechariah 3:2(2); Malachi 3:11 • rebuked, 4 Genesis 37:10; Psalm 9:5; Psalm 106:9; Psalm 119:21 • rebuketh, 1 Nahum 1:4 • reproved, 1 Jeremiah 29:27