בָּחַן bachan

Hebrew word for “to test” · Strong’s H974 · used 29 times in 28 verses

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Meaning

1) to examine, try, prove;

How it is translated

Glosses given for bachan in context, with how often each is used:

• test 6
• testing 3
• tests 3
• who tests 3
• have tested 3
• will test 3
• will be tested 2
• tested 2
• may be tested 1
• does it test 1
• has tested 1
• has been tested 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 42 (2), Job 34 (2), Psalms 11 (2), Malachi 3 (2), 1 Chronicles 29 (1), Job 7 (1), Job 12 (1), Job 23 (1), Psalms 7 (1), Psalms 17 (1)

Forms

• בחן 5
• בחנני 3
• תבחן 2
• יבחן 2
• ובחן 2
• ובחנת 2
• ובחנתים 2
• תבחנו 1
• ויבחנו 1
• תבחננו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with bachan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• כִּלְיָה kilyah “kidney” 5
• צָרַף tsaraph “to refine” 5
• לֵב lev “heart” 6
• יָדַע yada “to know” 5
• לִבָּה libbah “heart” 2
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 4
• טָעַם taam “to perceive” 2
• רָאָה raah “to see” 5
• חֵךְ chekh “palate” 2
• צַדִּיק tsaddiq “righteous” 3
• נְקָמָה neqamah “vengeance” 2
• חָקַר chaqar “to search” 2

Key verses

The verses using bachan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Chronicles 29:17 — I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all…
• Job 23:10 — But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Psalms 7:9 — Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
• Psalms 11:4 — The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
• Psalms 11:5 — The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
• Psalms 17:3 — Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Jeremiah 11:20 — But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
• Jeremiah 17:10 — I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
• Jeremiah 20:12 — But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
• Zechariah 13:9 — And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name,…
• Malachi 3:10 — Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you…
• Malachi 3:15 — And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.