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Lexicon :: Strong's H974 - bāḥan

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בָּחַן
Transliteration
bāḥan
Pronunciation
baw-khan'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 230

Strong’s Definitions

בָּחַן bâchan, baw-khan'; a primitive root; to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate:—examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H974 in the following manner: try (19x), prove (7x), examine (1x), tempt (1x), trial (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H974 in the following manner: try (19x), prove (7x), examine (1x), tempt (1x), trial (1x).

  1. to examine, try, prove

    1. (Qal)

      1. to examine, scrutinise

      2. to test, prove, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God)

    2. (Niphal) to be tried, proved

    3. (Pual) to make a trial

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּחַן bâchan, baw-khan'; a primitive root; to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate:—examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
STRONGS H974: Abbreviations
† [בָּחַן] verb examine, try (compare Aramaic בְּחַן, Syriac bdb010308, try, examine; Arabic bdb010309 I. VIII. test, compare WSG 65) —
Qal Perfect suffix בְּחָנַ֫נִי Job 23:10, בָּחַנְתָּ Psalm 17:3 + 7 times; Imperfect יִבְחָ֑ן Psalm 11:5 + 5 times; Imperative suffix בְּחָנֵנִי Psalm 26:2 + 2 times; Infinitive בְּחֹן Zechariah 13:9; Participle בֹּחֵן Jeremiah 11:20 + 5 times (|| צרף, נסה); —
1. examine, scrutinize, try Psalm 11:5; Psalm 139:23; Job 7:18; אָדָם בְנֵי יִבְחֲנוּ עַפְעַפָּיו His eyelids try the children of men (search them through and through) Psalm 11:4.
2. prove, test, try.
a. with the metaphor of gold Job 23:10; וּבְחַנְתִּים כִּבְחֹן אֶתהַֿזָּהָב and I will try them as one tries gold Zechariah 13:9.
b. without metaphor, of God testing persons Psalm Zech 26:2; Zech 66:10; Zech 81:8; Jeremiah 9:6; their ways Jeremiah 6:27; the לֵב Psalm 17:3; Jeremiah 12:3; Proverbs 17:3; 1 Chronicles 29:17; reins Jeremiah 17:10; heart and reins Psalm 7:10; Jeremiah 11:20 (= Jeremiah 20:12).
c. of man testing or tempting God Psalm 95:9; Malachi 3:10, 15.
d. the ear trying words Job 12:11 = Job 34:3.
Niph. Imperfect יִבָּחֵן Job 34:36; Genesis 42:15, 16, to be tried, proved.
Pu. בֹּחַן Ezekiel 21:18 the trial has been made (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate Ges MV Ew Ke, but noun בֹּ֫חַן MT Symm HaEv.; read בְּחֵן with grace, favour, Hi Co).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

42:15; 42:16

1 Chronicles

29:17

Job

7:18; 12:11; 23:10; 23:10; 34:3; 34:36

Psalms

7:10; 11:4; 11:5; 11:5; 17:3; 17:3; 26:2; 95:9; 139:23

Proverbs

17:3

Jeremiah

6:27; 9:6; 11:20; 11:20; 12:3; 17:10; 20:12

Ezekiel

21:18

Zechariah

13:9; 13:9

Malachi

3:10; 3:15

H974

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H974 matches the Hebrew בָּחַן (bāḥan),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:15 - And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are telling the truth. If you are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:17 - I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. All these things I have given willingly and with honest intent. And now I have seen with joy how willingly your people who are here have given to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:11 - Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:10 - But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:3 - For the ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 34:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:36 - Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost for answering like a wicked man!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:9 - Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:4 - The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD is on his heavenly throne. He observes everyone on earth; his eyes examine them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:5 - The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:3 - Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me, you will find that I have planned no evil; my mouth has not transgressed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 26:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:2 - Test me, LORD, and try me, examine my heart and my mind;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 66:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:10 - For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:7 - In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 95:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 95:9 - where your ancestors tested me; they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:23 - Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:3 - The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:27 - “I have made you a tester of metals and my people the ore, that you may observe and test their ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: “See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20 - But you, LORD Almighty, who judge righteously and test the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have committed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:3 - Yet you know me, LORD; you see me and test my thoughts about you. Drag them off like sheep to be butchered! Set them apart for the day of slaughter!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:10 - “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:12 - LORD Almighty, you who examine the righteous and probe the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have committed my cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:13 - “ ‘Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:9 - This third I will put into 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.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:10 - Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:15 - But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it.’ ”
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