בָּחַן bâchan — to test (especially metals)
Translated in the KJV as examine, prove, tempt, try.
a primitive root; to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate.
bâchan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Imperative 3Infinitive construct 1
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?
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
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.
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›