1) to examine, try, prove 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to examine, scrutinise 1a2) to test, prove, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God) 1b) (Niphal) to be tried, proved 1c) (Pual) to make a trial
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H974 — בָּחַן
ba.chan · to test · Hebrew/Aramaic
27 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 42:15 · תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּAnd this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.Genesis 42:16 · וְיִבָּֽחֲנוּ֙Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”1 Chronicles 29:17 · בֹּחֵ֣ןI know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.Job 7:18 · תִּבְחָנֶֽנּוּ׃that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?Job 12:11 · תִּבְחָ֑ןDoes not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?Job 23:10 · בְּ֝חָנַ֗נִיYet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.Job 34:3 · תִּבְחָ֑ןFor the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.Job 34:36 · יִבָּחֵ֣ןIf only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.Psalm 7:9 · וּבֹחֵ֣ןPut an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.Psalm 11:4 · יִ֝בְחֲנ֗וּThe LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.Psalm 11:5 · יִ֫בְחָ֥ןThe LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.Psalm 17:3 · בָּ֘חַ֤נְתָּYou have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.Psalm 26:2 · בְּחָנֵ֣נִיTest me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.Psalm 66:10 · בְחַנְתָּ֥נוּFor You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.Psalm 81:7 · אֶבְחָֽנְךָ֨You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. SelahPsalm 95:9 · בְּ֝חָנ֗וּנִיwhere your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.Psalm 139:23 · בְּ֝חָנֵ֗נִיSearch me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.Proverbs 17:3 · וּבֹחֵ֖ןA crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.Jeremiah 6:27 · וּבָחַנְתָּ֖“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.Jeremiah 9:7 · וּבְחַנְתִּ֑יםTherefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?Jeremiah 11:20 · בֹּחֵ֥ןO LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.Jeremiah 12:3 · וּבָחַנְתָּ֥But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.Jeremiah 17:10 · בֹּחֵ֣ןI, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.Jeremiah 20:12 · בֹּחֵ֣ןO LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.Zechariah 13:9 · וּבְחַנְתִּ֖ים · כִּבְחֹ֣ןThis third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”Malachi 3:10 · וּבְחָנ֤וּנִיBring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.Malachi 3:15 · בָּחֲנ֛וּSo now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”