Hebrew verb · H5254
נָסָה
nasahnaw-saw'
to test
36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâçâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5254is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 32spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5254
to test; by implication, to attempt
The King James renders it: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nasah is rendered "to test". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 22:1Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-two different ways.
The first use
Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
Genesis 22:1נִסָּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to put to test5
- and they put to test4
- I have put to test2
- to put to test him2
- to put to test you2
- ¿ did someone attempt1
- ¿ has it attempted1
- and he put to test them1
- and put to test me1
- and they have put to test1
- are you putting to test1
- he had put to test1
and 14 more, 36 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 36, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
32 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיְנַסּ֣וּ3
- וַיְנַסּוּ־2
- לְנַסּ֥וֹת2
- אֲנַסֶּ֤ה1
- אֲנַסֶּ֖ה1
- אֲנַסְּכָ֛ה1
- אֲנַסֶּ֛נּוּ1
- הֲנִסָּ֣ה1
- הֲנִסָּ֬ה1
- וַיְנַסֵּ֖ם1
- וְנַסֵּ֑נִי1
- לְנַסּוֹת֩1
and 20 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vpw3mp5Hc/Vpw3mp
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vpcc
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Vpcc/Sp3ms
- question particle + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HTi/Vpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)2HVpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpi1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpp1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Vpv2ms/Sp1bs
- Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mp
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Vpcc/Sp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpc1cs/Sp3ms
Genesis
one use
Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- נִסָּ֖הnisahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he put to test
Exodus
five uses
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,
- נִסָּֽהוּ׃nisahuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he put to test it
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
- אֲנַסֶּ֛נּוּʾanassenuverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I should put to test it
So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
- תְּנַסּ֖וּןtenasunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: are you putting to test
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- נַסֹּתָ֤םnasotamverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: put to test they
“Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”
- נַסּ֣וֹתnasotverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to put to test
Numbers
one use
not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
- וַיְנַסּ֣וּvaynasuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they have put to test
Deuteronomy
eight uses
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- הֲנִסָּ֣הhanisahquestion particle + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ has it attempted
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
- תְנַסּ֔וּtenasuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will put to test
- נִסִּיתֶ֖םnisitemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you put to test
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- לְנַסֹּֽתְךָ֗lenasotekhapreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to put to test you
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- נַסֹּתֶ֔ךָnasotekhaverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to put to test you
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- מְנַסֶּ֞הmenasehverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: putting to test
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
- נִסְּתָ֤הnisetahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has attempted
Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
- נִסִּיתוֹ֙nisitoverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you put to test him
Judges
four uses
In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”
- נַסּ֥וֹתnasotverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to put to test
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
- לְנַסּ֥וֹתlenasotpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to put to test
These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
- לְנַסּ֥וֹתlenasotpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to put to test
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
- אֲנַסֶּ֤הʾanasehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me put to test
1 Samuel
two uses
David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.
- נִסָּה֒nisahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had put to test
- נִסִּ֑יתִיnisitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have put to test
1 Kings
one use
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with difficult questions.
- לְנַסֹּת֖וֹlenasotopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to put to test him
2 Chronicles
two uses
Now when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.
- לְנַסּוֹת֩lenasotpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to put to test
And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
- לְנַ֨סּוֹת֔וֹlenasotopreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to put to test him
Job
one use
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
- הֲנִסָּ֬הhanisahquestion particle + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ did someone attempt
Psalms
six uses
Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
- וְנַסֵּ֑נִיvenaseniconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and put to test me
They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
- וַיְנַסּוּ־vaynasu-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they put to test
Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
- וַיְנַסּ֣וּvaynasuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they put to test
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
- וַיְנַסּ֣וּvaynasuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they put to test
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
- נִ֭סּוּנִיnisuniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they put to test me
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- וַיְנַסּוּ־vaynasu-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they put to test
Ecclesiastes
two uses
I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.
- אֲנַסְּכָ֛הʾanasekhahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: let me put to test you
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
- נִסִּ֣יתִיnisitiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have put to test
Isaiah
one use
But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask; I will not test the LORD.”
- אֲנַסֶּ֖הʾanasehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will put to test
Daniel
two uses
“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink.
- נַס־nas-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: put to test
So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.
- וַיְנַסֵּ֖םvaynasemHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he put to test them
Where it leads
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How the numbers are counted
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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
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