Hebrew verb · H974
בָּחַן
bachanbaw-khan'
to test
29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâchan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H974is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H974
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
The King James renders it: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
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
bachan is rendered "to test". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 42:15And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
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 42:15תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and I will test them2
- test me2
- testing2
- tests2
- and test me1
- and testing1
- and tests1
- and you test1
- and you will test1
- as tests1
- does it test1
- he has tested me1
and 13 more, 29 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.
The words it stands beside
All 29, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 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
- בֹּחֵ֣ן3
- תִּבְחָ֑ן2
- אֶבְחָֽנְךָ֨1
- בֹ֔חַן1
- בֹּחֵ֥ן1
- בָּחֲנ֛וּ1
- בְּ֝חָנ֗וּנִי1
- בְּחָנֵ֣נִי1
- בְּ֝חָנֵ֗נִי1
- בְּ֝חָנַ֗נִי1
- בָּ֘חַ֤נְתָּ1
- בְחַנְתָּ֥נוּ1
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular4HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVqv2ms/Sp1bs
- Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mp2Hc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mp
- Hc/Vqq2ms2Hc/Vqq2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular2HC/Vqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqi3fs
- HC/VNu3mp1HC/VNu3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Vqv2mp/Sp1bs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVNi2mp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNi3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVPp3ms
Genesis
two uses
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.
- תִּבָּחֵ֑נוּtibachenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be tested
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!”
- וְיִבָּֽחֲנוּ֙veyibachanuHC/VNu3mptagged: so they may be tested
1 Chronicles
one use
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.
- בֹּחֵ֣ןbochenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: testing
Job
five uses
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
- תִּבְחָנֶֽנּוּ׃tivchanenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you test him
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
- תִּבְחָ֑ןtivchanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: does it test
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- בְּ֝חָנַ֗נִיbechananiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he has tested me
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
- תִּבְחָ֑ןtivchanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it tests
If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
- יִבָּחֵ֣ןyibachenverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be tested
Psalms
nine uses
Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
- וּבֹחֵ֣ןuvochenconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and tests
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.
- יִ֝בְחֲנ֗וּyivchanuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they test
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- יִ֫בְחָ֥ןyivchanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he tests
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.
- בָּ֘חַ֤נְתָּbachantaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have tested
Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
- בְּחָנֵ֣נִיbechaneniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: test me
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- בְחַנְתָּ֥נוּvechantanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: you have tested us
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
- אֶבְחָֽנְךָ֨ʾevchanekhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I tested you
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
- בְּ֝חָנ֗וּנִיbechanuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they tested me
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
- בְּ֝חָנֵ֗נִיbechaneniverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: test me
Proverbs
one use
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
- וּבֹחֵ֖ןuvochenconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and testing
Jeremiah
six uses
“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
- וּבָחַנְתָּ֖uvachantaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will test
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?
- וּבְחַנְתִּ֑יםuvechantimHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will test them
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.
- בֹּחֵ֥ןbochenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: tests
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.
- וּבָחַנְתָּ֥uvachantaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you test
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- בֹּחֵ֣ןbochenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: testing
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.
- בֹּחֵ֣ןbochenverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: tests
Ezekiel
one use
Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.
- בֹ֔חַןvochanverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been tested
Zechariah
two uses
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.’”
- וּבְחַנְתִּ֖יםuvechantimHc/Vqq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will test them
- כִּבְחֹ֣ןkivchonpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as tests
Malachi
two uses
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.
- וּבְחָנ֤וּנִיuvechanuniconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and test me
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
- בָּחֲנ֛וּbachanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have tested
The letters
Gematria 60· 710 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.