# בָּחַן (bachan) Israeli respelling: ba-chan. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H974. 28 Old Testament occurrences. to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate King James renderings: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/bachan-h974 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 42:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Genesis 42:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [1 Chronicles 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 willi… - [Job 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/18) — And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? - [Job 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/12/11) — Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? - [Job 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/10) — But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. - [Job 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/3) — For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. - [Job 34:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/34/36) — My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. - [Psalms 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/5) — The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. - [Psalms 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sha… - [Psalms 26:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/26/2) — Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. - [Psalms 66:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/66/10) — For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. - [Psalms 81:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. Sel… - [Psalms 95:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/95/9) — When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. - [Psalms 139:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/139/23) — Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: - [Proverbs 17:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/3) — The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts. - [Jeremiah 6:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/27) — I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. - [Jeremiah 9:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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? - [Jeremiah 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Ezekiel 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Malachi 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Malachi 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.