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בָּחַן

ba.chan

to test

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Strong’s H974Verb29 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

who tests3

test3

you test2

you have tested2

i will test2

you will be tested1

they may be tested1

are testing1

In the text

Genesis 42:15תִּבָּחֵנוּ
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.
Job 7:18תִּבְחָנֶנּוּ
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
Psalm 7:9וּבֹחֵן
Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
Jeremiah 11:20בֹּחֵן
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.
Zechariah 13:9וּבְחַנְתִּים
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 3:10וּבְחָנוּנִי
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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[בָּחַן] vb. examine, try

Qal

1. examine, scrutinize, try

2. prove, test, try

Niph. to be tried, proved

Pu. the trial has been made

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.