Strong's Concordance H974

Original Word: בָּחַן
Transliteration: bâchan
Phonetic Spelling: baw-khan'
a primitive root; to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate; examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).

Usages throughout the bible

Genesis 42:15 - Hereby ye shall be proved: H974 By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

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, H974 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 H974 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 H974 him every moment?

Job 12:11 - Doth not the ear try H974 words? and the mouth taste his meat?

Job 23:10 - But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried H974 me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 34:3 - For the ear trieth H974 words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Job 34:36 - My desire is that Job may be tried H974 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 H974 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, H974 the children of men.

Psalms 11:5 - The LORD trieth H974 the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalms 17:3 - Thou hast proved H974 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.

Psalms 26:2 - Examine H974 me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Psalms 66:10 - For thou, O God, hast proved H974 us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Psalms 81:7 - Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved H974 thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Psalms 95:9 - When your fathers tempted me, proved H974 me, and saw my work.

Psalms 139:23 - Search me, O God, and know my heart: try H974 me, and know my thoughts:

Proverbs 17:3 - The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth H974 the hearts.

Jeremiah 6:27 - I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try H974 their way.

Jeremiah 9:7 - Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try H974 them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Jeremiah 11:20 - But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest H974 the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Jeremiah 12:3 - But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried H974 mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 17:10 - I the LORD search the heart, I try H974 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 H974 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, H974 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 H974 them as gold is tried: H974 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 H974 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.

Malachi 3:15 - And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt H974 God are even delivered.