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בָּחַן

Definition and meaning

bachan (baw-khan') v. 1. to test (especially metals) 2. (generally and figuratively) to investigate [a primitive root] KJV: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).

Tagged KJV passages

28 matching verses - 29.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Genesis 42:15

Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

Matched English: proved
Genesis 42:16

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Matched English: proved
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 these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

Matched English: triest
Job 7:18

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

Matched English: try
Job 12:11

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

Matched English: try
Job 23:10

But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Matched English: tried
Job 34:3

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Matched English: trieth
Job 34:36

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

Matched English: tried
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.

Matched English: trieth
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.

Matched English: try
Psalms 11:5

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Matched English: trieth
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.

Matched English: proved
Psalms 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Matched English: Examine
Psalms 66:10

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Matched English: proved
Psalms 81:7

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Matched English: proved
Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

Matched English: proved
Psalms 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Matched English: try
Proverbs 17:3

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.

Matched English: trieth
Jeremiah 6:27

I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

Matched English: try
Jeremiah 9:7

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Matched English: try
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.

Matched English: triest
Jeremiah 12:3

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Matched English: tried
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.

Matched English: try
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.

Matched English: triest