Strong's #6884: tsaraph (pronounced tsaw-raf')

a primitive root; to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively):--cast, (re-)fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

tsâraph

1) to smelt, refine, test

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to smelt, refine

1a2) to test

1a3) to test (and Proverbs true)

1a4) smelter, refiner, goldsmith (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be refined

1c) (Piel) to be a refiner

1c1) refiner (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 33 times:

 

Judges 7:4: "bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom"
Judges 17:4: "two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were"
2 Samuel 22:31: "is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust"
Nehemiah 3:8: "Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah"
Nehemiah 3:32: "unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants."
Psalms 12:6: "are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven"
Psalms 17:3: "mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth"
Psalms 18:30: "is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust"
Psalms 26:2: "Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart."
Psalms 66:10: "For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried."
Psalms 66:10: "hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried."
Psalms 105:19: "came: the word of the LORD tried"
Psalms 119:140: "Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth"
Proverbs 25:4: "from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the refiner."
Proverbs 30:5: "Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust"
Isaiah 1:25: "my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:"
Isaiah 40:19: "The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver"
Isaiah 40:19: "and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains."
Isaiah 41:7: "So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote"
Isaiah 46:6: "and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down,"
Isaiah 48:10: "Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."
Jeremiah 6:29: "the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked"
Jeremiah 6:29: "is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not"
Jeremiah 9:7: "the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do"
Jeremiah 10:9: "from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple"
Jeremiah 10:14: "is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image:"
Jeremiah 51:17: "is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image:"
Daniel 11:35: "And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time"
Daniel 12:10: "Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none"
Zechariah 13:9: "the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try"
Zechariah 13:9: "and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried:"
Malachi 3:2: "when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:"
Malachi 3:3: "And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi,"