Strong's #5254: nacah (pronounced naw-saw')

a primitive root; to test; by implication, to attempt:--adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâsâh

1) to test, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to test, try

1a2) to attempt, assay, try

1a3) to test, try, prove, tempt

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

 

Genesis 22:1: "these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto"
Exodus 15:25: "for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved"
Exodus 16:4: "and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law,"
Exodus 17:2: "chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"
Exodus 17:7: "of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is"
Exodus 20:20: "God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before"
Numbers 14:22: "I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not"
Deuteronomy 4:34: "Or hath God attempted to go and take him a nation from the midst"
Deuteronomy 6:16: "Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah."
Deuteronomy 6:16: "the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah."
Deuteronomy 8:2: "in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart,"
Deuteronomy 8:16: "that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;"
Deuteronomy 13:3: "for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love"
Deuteronomy 28:56: "and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon"
Deuteronomy 33:8: "be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters"
Judges 2:22: "That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way"
Judges 3:1: "which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many"
Judges 3:4: "And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments"
Judges 6:39: "against me and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece;"
1 Samuel 17:39: "and he attempted to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto"
1 Samuel 17:39: "I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put"
1 Kings 10:1: "concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions."
2 Chronicles 9:1: "of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem,"
2 Chronicles 32:31: "done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart."
Job 4:2: " If we attempt to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?"
Psalms 26:2: "Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart."
Psalms 78:18: " And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust."
Psalms 78:41: "Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel."
Psalms 78:56: " Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:"
Psalms 95:9: "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work."
Psalms 106:14: "But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert."
Ecclesiastes 2:1: "in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold,"
Ecclesiastes 7:23: "All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far"
Isaiah 7:12: "I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD."
Daniel 1:12: " Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse"
Daniel 1:14: "So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days."