Bachan בָּחַן

Bachan (Hebrew בָּחַן, Strong's H974) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to test”. It occurs 29 times in 28 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Bachan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• 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.And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.
• 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 in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

1 Chronicles

• 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.I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

Job

• Job 7:18
  And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
• Job 12:11
  Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
• Job 23:10
  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
• Job 34:3
  For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
• Job 34:36
  My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

Psalms

• Psalm 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.Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.
• Psalm 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.The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
• Psalm 11:5
  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
• Psalm 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.You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
• Psalm 26:2
  Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
• Psalm 66:10
  For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
• Psalm 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.You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
• Psalm 95:9
  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
• Psalm 139:23
  Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 17:3
  The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 6:27
  I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.
• 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?Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
• 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 revealed my cause.O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
• 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 them for the day of slaughter.But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
• 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.I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
• 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 opened my cause.O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

Ezekiel

• 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.Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.

Zechariah

• 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.This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

Malachi

• 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.Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
• 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.So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).