H974

בחן

bachaan

Verb · A primitive root

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

Outline

to examine, try, prove

(Qal)

to examine, scrutinise
to test, prove, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God)

(Niphal) to be tried, proved
(Pual) to make a trial

Usages

Genesis 42:15

Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

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Genesis 42:16

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

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1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

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Job 7:18

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

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Job 12:11

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

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Job 23:10

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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Job 34:3

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

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Job 34:36

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

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Psalms 7:9

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

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Psalms 11:4

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

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Psalms 11:5

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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Psalms 17:3

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

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Psalms 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

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Psalms 66:10

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

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Psalms 81:7

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

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Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

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Proverbs 17:3

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

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Jeremiah 6:27

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

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Jeremiah 11:20

But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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Jeremiah 12:3

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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Jeremiah 17:10

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

Free Will

Job 33:15-17 Proverbs 16:1 Proverbs 16:9 Proverbs 20:24 Proverbs 21:1 Jeremiah 10:23 Ecclesiasticus 18:3 Ecclesiasticus 33:13 Ecclesiasticus 39:18 Romans 9:17 Revelation 17:17

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Jeremiah 20:12

But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.

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Ezekiel 21:13

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

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Zechariah 13:9

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

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Malachi 3:10

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

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Malachi 3:15

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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