Testing
בֹּ֫חַןStrong’s H0976bochan (bo-chan)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bochan is the Hebrew word usually translated “testing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.”
Meaning
- Testing, tested, tried
How it's translated
- testing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בֹּ֫חַן bochan · testing
testing, tested, tried
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “testing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEST'ING, participle present
tense [from test.] Trying for proof; proving by a standard or by experiment.
All definitions and other forms of “testing”
TEST'ING, noun
The act of trying for proof.
- In metallurgy, the operation of refining large quantities of gold or silver by means of lead, in the vessel called a test.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.