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Strong's #974: bachan (pronounced baw-khan')

a primitive root; to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate:--examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâchan

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 29 times:

Genesis 42:15: "Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except"
Genesis 42:16: "and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else"
1 Chronicles 29:17: "that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me,"
Job 7:18: "And that thou shouldest visit and try him every moment?"
Job 12:11: "Doth not try words? and the mouth taste his meat?"
Job 23:10: "the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
Job 34:3: "For trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat."
Job 34:36: "My desire may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked"
Psalms 7:9: "the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins."
Psalms 11:4: "his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men."
Psalms 11:5: "The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth."
Psalms 17:3: " Thou hast proved thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed"
Psalms 26:2: " Examine and prove me; try my reins and my heart."
Psalms 66:10: "For hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried."
Psalms 81:7: "thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah."
Psalms 95:9: "When tempted me, proved me, and saw my work."
Psalms 139:23: "and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:"
Proverbs 17:3: "and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts."
Jeremiah 6:27: "and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way."
Jeremiah 9:7: "of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for"
Jeremiah 11:20: "that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance"
Jeremiah 12:3: "knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep"
Jeremiah 17:10: "search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,"
Jeremiah 20:12: "But, O LORD that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see"
Ezekiel 21:13: "Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be"
Zechariah 13:9: "them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they"
Zechariah 13:9: "and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I"
Malachi 3:10: "the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith"
Malachi 3:15: "they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered."









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