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בָּחַן

bachan · test, examine

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H974 · appears 29 times in the Bible

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What it means

bachan (בָּחַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “test, examine”.

To find out whether something is true or genuine, as metal is tested.

How to say it

ba·chan

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 try someone, as metal is tried.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • test ×10
  • tests ×7
  • You have tested ×3
  • assay ×2
  • Examine me ×1
  • I examined you ×1
  • he has tested me ×1
  • may be tested ×1
  • they examined me ×1
  • were tested ×1
  • others ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 42:15

    By this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here.

  • Genesis 42:16

    Send one of you, and let him get your brother, while you are kept in prison, so that your words may be tested, whether the truth is with you; and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

  • 1 Chronicles 29:17

    I know, my Elohim, that you test the heart and take pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have offered willingly all these things; and now I have seen with joy your people who are present here offering willingly to you.

  • Job 7:18

    and inspect him every morning and test him every moment?

  • Job 12:11

    Does not the ear test words, as the palate tastes food?

  • Job 23:10

    For he knows the way that is with me; he has tested me: like gold I will come forth.

  • Job 34:3

    For the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

  • Job 34:36

    Would that Job were tested to the end for his answers like men of wickedness!

  • Psalms 7:9

    May the evil of the wicked come to an end, and make firm the righteous; and the one who tests the hearts and the kidneys is the righteous Elohim.

  • Psalms 11:4

    YHWH is in his holy temple; YHWH, in the heavens is his throne; his eyes see, his eyelids test human beings.

  • Psalms 11:5

    YHWH tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence his soul hates.

  • Psalms 17:3

    You have tested my heart, you have inspected it by night, you have refined me; you will find nothing; I have resolved: my mouth will not overstep.

  • Psalms 26:2

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

  • Psalms 66:10

    For you have tested us, Elohim; you have refined us as one refines silver.

  • Psalms 81:7

    In distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you in the hiding place of thunder; I examined you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

  • Psalms 95:9

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

  • Psalms 139:23

    Examine me, El, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

  • Proverbs 17:3

    The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the one who tests hearts is YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 6:27

    “As an assayer I have set you among my people, a fortress, that you may know and assay their way.

  • Jeremiah 9:7

    Therefore thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “Look, I will refine them and assay them, for how else can I act because of the daughter of my people?

  • Jeremiah 11:20

    But YHWH Tsevaot, who judges righteously, who tests the kidneys and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have laid open my cause.

  • Jeremiah 12:3

    But you, YHWH, know me; you see me, and you have tested my heart with you. Drag them off like sheep to the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of killing.

  • Jeremiah 17:10

    I, YHWH, search the heart, I test the kidneys, to give to each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.

  • Jeremiah 20:12

    But YHWH Tsevaot, who tests the righteous, who sees the kidneys and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them, for to you I have laid open my cause.

  • Ezekiel 21:13

    For it is a test; and what if also the scepter that despises will not be? declares Adonai YHWH.’

  • Zechariah 13:9

    And I will bring the third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as one tests gold. He will call on my name, and I will answer him; I will say, ‘He is my people’; and he will say, ‘YHWH is my Elohim.’”

  • Malachi 3:10

    Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and test me, please, in this, says YHWH Tsevaot, if I will not open for you the floodgates of the heavens and pour out on you blessing until there is no more need.

  • Malachi 3:15

    And now we call happy the insolent; also those who do wickedness are built up; also they test Elohim and escape.”

And 1 more times.