Bachan means “examine” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G974 — bibliaridion (“little book”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H974 בָּחַן (bachan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bachan (baw-khan') v. 1. to test (especially metals) 2. (generally and figuratively) to investigate It has 28 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include try, may, examine, tempted, and trial. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
bachan (baw-khan') v. 1. to test (especially metals) 2. (generally and figuratively) to investigate [a primitive root] KJV: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
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to test
Usage: 1) to examine, try, prove 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to examine, scrutinise 1a2) to test, prove, try (of gold, persons, the heart, man of God) 1b) (Niphal) to be tried, proved 1c) (Pual) to make a trial
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bachan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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28 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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.
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.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H974.
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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.
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.
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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.
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
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.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
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.
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.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H974, grouped by book.
Bachan (Strong's H974) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "examine". bachan (baw-khan') v. 1. to test (especially metals) 2. (generally and figuratively) to investigate
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's H974 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H974 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as try, may, examine, tempted, trial, and prove. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.