nasa · test

What it means

nasa (נָסָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “test”.

Find out what someone is truly like. When God tests a person it is to bring their faith to light, not to make them fall. Also try, attempt.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put someone in a situation to see how he responds and what is within him.
2. To try something to see if it works, or to dare to attempt it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• test ×22
• tested ×6
• tested them ×3
• testing ×2
• If one ventures ×1
• tried ×1
• venture ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×5
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×8
• Judges×4
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×6
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×1
• Daniel×2

• Genesis 22:1

  After these things Elohim tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

• Exodus 15:25

  He cried out to YHWH, and YHWH showed him a tree; he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them.

• Exodus 16:4

  YHWH said to Moses, “Look, I am going to rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in my instruction or not.

• Exodus 17:2

  The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test YHWH?”

• Exodus 17:7

  He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the sons of Israel, and because they tested YHWH, saying, “Is YHWH among us or not?”

• Exodus 20:20

  Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid; for Elohim has come in order to test you, and so that the fear of him may be before you, so that you may not sin.”

• Numbers 14:22

  that all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not listened to my voice,

• Deuteronomy 4:34

  Or has a god tried to come and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

• Deuteronomy 6:16

  You shall not put YHWH your Elohim to the test, as you put him to the test at Massah.

• Deuteronomy 8:2

  Remember all the way that YHWH your Elohim has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

• Deuteronomy 8:16

  who fed you manna in the wilderness, which your fathers did not know, in order to afflict you and in order to test you, to do you good in the end;

• Deuteronomy 13:3

  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams, for YHWH your Elohim is testing you to know whether you love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The woman who is the tenderest among you and the most refined, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicacy and tenderness, will look with an evil eye on the husband of her bosom and on her son and on her daughter,

• Deuteronomy 33:8

  And of Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim belong to your faithful man, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah;

• Judges 2:22

  in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of YHWH, walking in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

• Judges 3:1

  These are the nations that YHWH left to test Israel by them, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan,

• Judges 3:4

  They were for testing Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of YHWH that he commanded their fathers through Moses.

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to Elohim, “Do not let your anger burn against me, and let me speak just this time. Please let me test just this time with the fleece: please let there be dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the land let there be dew.”

• 1 Samuel 17:39

  David fastened his sword over his garment and tried to walk, for he had not tested it. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk in these, for I have not tested them.” And David removed them from himself.

• 1 Kings 10:1

  And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, for the name of YHWH, and she came to test him with riddles.

• 2 Chronicles 9:1

  The queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon, and she came to test Solomon with riddles in Jerusalem, with a very great retinue and camels carrying spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones; she came to Solomon and spoke with him all that was on her heart.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  And so, with the interpreters of the officials of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, Elohim left him, to test him, to know all that was in his heart.

• Job 4:2

  “If one ventures a word with you, will you be weary? But to hold back words, who is able?

• Psalms 26:2

  Examine me, YHWH, and put me to the test; refine my kidneys and my heart.

• Psalms 78:18

  And they put El to the test in their heart by asking food for their appetite.

• Psalms 78:41

  And again they put El to the test, and the Holy One of Israel they aggrieved.

• Psalms 78:56

  But they put him to the test and rebelled against Elohim Elyon, and his testimonies they did not keep.

• Psalms 95:9

  when your fathers put me to the test; they examined me, though they had seen my work.

• Psalms 106:14

  And they had a great craving in the wilderness, and put El to the test in the desert.

• Ecclesiastes 2:1

  I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with joy; and look on the good.” And look, it too was vapor.

• Ecclesiastes 7:23

  All this I tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

• Isaiah 7:12

  But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put to the test YHWH.”

• Daniel 1:12

  “Test your servants, please, for ten days, and let them give us some of the vegetables and we will eat, and water and we will drink.

• Daniel 1:14

  And he listened to them in this matter and tested them ten days.

And 2 more times.