Lexicon :: Strong's H5254 - nāsâ

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham! ”

“Here I am,” he answered.

So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable.

The LORD made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah, and he tested them there.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.

So the people complained to Moses, “Give us water to drink.”

“Why are you complaining to me? ” Moses replied to them. “Why are you testing the LORD? ”

He named the place Massah[fn] and Meribah[fn] because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not? ”

Moses responded to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear him and will not[fn] sin.”

“none of the men who have seen my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested me these ten times and did not obey me,

“Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

“Do not test the LORD your God as you tested him at Massah.

“Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

“He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper.

“do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.

“The most sensitive and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her refinement and sensitivity, will begrudge the husband she embraces, her son, and her daughter,

He said about Levi:

Your Thummim and Urim belong to your faithful one;[fn]

you tested him at Massah

and contended with him at the Waters of Meribah.

“I did this to test Israel and to see whether or not they would keep the LORD’s way by walking in it, as their ancestors had.”

These are the nations the LORD left in order to test all those in Israel who had experienced none of the wars in Canaan.

The LORD left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the LORD’s commands he had given their ancestors through Moses.

Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.”

David strapped his sword on over the military clothes and tried to walk, but he was not used to them. “I can’t walk in these,” David said to Saul, “I’m not used to them.” So David took them off.

The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of the LORD and came to test him with difficult questions.

The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, so she came to test Solomon with difficult questions at Jerusalem with a very large entourage, with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke with him about everything that was on her mind.

When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent[fn] to him to inquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.

Should anyone try to speak with you

when you are exhausted?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

Test me, LORD, and try me;

examine my heart and mind.

They deliberately[fn] tested God,

demanding the food they craved.

They constantly tested God

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,

for they did not keep his decrees.

where your ancestors tested me;

they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

They were seized with craving in the wilderness

and tested God in the desert.

I said to myself, “Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

I have tested all this by wisdom. I resolved, “I will be wise,” but it was beyond me.

But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the LORD.”

“Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

He agreed with them about this and tested them for ten days.