בָּחַן bâchan

Hebrew · Strong's H974 · pronounced baw-khan' · used 29 times in 28 verses

Meaning

to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate

In the King James Version: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).

Derivation: a primitive root;

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Where it is used

Genesis 42:15 And 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 Send 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 I 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 that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
Job 12:11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
Job 23:10 Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
Job 34:3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
Job 34:36 If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
Psalms 7:9 Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
Psalms 11:4 The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
Psalms 11:5 The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
Psalms 17:3 You 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.
Psalms 26:2 Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
Psalms 66:10 For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
Psalms 81:7 You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Psalms 95:9 where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Proverbs 17:3 A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Jeremiah 6:27 “I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
Jeremiah 9:7 Therefore 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 O 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 But 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 I, 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 O 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.
Ezekiel 21:13 Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
Zechariah 13:9 This 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 Bring 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 So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”