H974
H974 Hebrew בָּחַן bâchan
28 occurrences 28 in Old Testament

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.

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.

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.

Job

7:18

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

12:11

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

23:10

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

34:3

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

34:36

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

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.

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.

11:5

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

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.

26:2

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

66:10

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

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.

95:9

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

139:23

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

Proverbs

17:3

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

Jeremiah

6:27

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ezekiel

21:13

Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.

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, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

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 the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

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.