Bible Dictionary
CORRECTION
Correction is instruction or chastisement intended to turn a person from error toward what is right. Scripture closely connects correction with discipline, teaching, and moral improvement.
Definition
Correction is instruction or chastisement intended to teach, discipline, or turn a person toward what is right. In the Hebrew conception, chastisement and pedagogy were closely connected, so correction, discipline, and instruction were not sharply separated.
Biblical Usage
The word is used for instruction and moral formation. Later revisions replace “correction” with “instruction” in one passage, while another New Testament term is translated “correction.”
Historical Background
Older and newer English versions differ because the underlying Hebrew and Greek ideas include both teaching and chastisement.
Historical Bible Dictionaries
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>ko-rek'-shun (mucar, usually rendered "instruction," is translated "correction" in several passages): The verb from which the noun is derived signifies "to instruct" or "chastise." The idea of chastisement was very closely connected in the Hebrew mind with that of pedagogy. See CHASTISEMENT. the Revised Version (British and American) and the American Standard Revised Version have changed "correction" of the King James Version to "instruction" in Jer 7:28, reversing the order in the margins. shebheT, rendered "rod" in Job 21:9, is unnecessarily changed to "correction" in 37:13. In 2Ti 3:16, epanorthosis, is translated "correction." The difference between correction, discipline and instruction Was not clearly drawn in the Hebrew mind.</p><p>W. W. Davies</p>