- Original: בּחן
- Transliteration: Bachan
- Phonetic: baw-khan'
- Definition:
1. to examine, try, prove
a. (Qal)
1. to examine, scrutinise
2. to test, prove, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God)
b. (Niphal) to be tried, proved
c. (Pual) to make a trial
- Origin: a primitive root
- TWOT entry: 230
- Part(s) of speech: Verb
- Strong's: A primitive root; to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively to investigate: - examine prove tempt try (trial).
Total KJV Occurrences: 29
• Examine, 1
Psalm 26:2
• prove, 1
Malachi 3:10
• proved, 6
Genesis 42:15;
Genesis 42:16;
Psalm 17:3;
Psalm 66:10;
Psalm 81:7;
Psalm 95:9
• tempt, 1
Malachi 3:15
• trial, 1
Ezekiel 21:13
• tried, 4
Job 23:10;
Job 34:36;
Jeremiah 12:3;
Zechariah 13:9
• triest, 3
1 Chronicles 29:17;
Jeremiah 11:20;
Jeremiah 20:12
• trieth, 4
Job 34:3;
Psalm 7:9;
Psalm 11:5;
Proverbs 17:3
• try, 8
Job 7:18;
Job 12:11;
Psalm 11:4;
Psalm 139:23;
Jeremiah 6:27;
Jeremiah 9:7;
Jeremiah 17:10;
Zechariah 13:9