Correction
Bible Usage:
- correction used 12 times.
- First Reference: Job 37:13
- Last Reference: 2 Timothy 3:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
See Affliction, Design of; Chastisement; Children, Correction of; Parents; Punishment; Scourging
Affliction, Design of; Chastisement; Children, Correction of; Parents; Punishment; Scourging
CORRECTION, noun [Latin]
1. The act of correcting; the act of bringing back, from error or deviation, to a just standard, as to truth, rectitude, justice or propriety; as the correction of opinions or manners.
All scripture is profitable for correction 2 Timothy 3:16.
2. Retrenchment of faults or errors; amendment; as the correction of a book, or of the press.
3. That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; as the corrections of a copy are numerous; set the corrections in the margin of a proof-sheet.
4. That which is intended to rectify, or to cure faults; punishment; discipline; chastisement; that which corrects.
Withhold not correction from the child. Proverbs 23:13.
5. In scriptural language, whatever tends to correct the moral conduct, and bring back from error or sin, as afflictions.
They have refused to receive correction Jeremiah 5:3.
My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor be weary of his correction Proverbs 3:11.
6. Critical notice; animadversion.
7. Abatement of noxious qualities; the counteraction of what is inconvenient or hurtful in its effects; as the correction of acidity in the stomach.
House of correction a house where disorderly persons are confined; a bridewell.
CORRECTIONAL, adjective Tending to or intended for correction.
CORRECTIONER, noun One that has been in the house of correction. [Not used.]
Bible Usage:
- correction used 12 times.
- First Reference: Job 37:13
- Last Reference: 2 Timothy 3:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: