To test
נָסָהStrong’s H5254nasah (na-sah)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “put to test”, “put to test you” and “have put to test”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”
Meaning
- To test, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test(Piel)
How it's translated
- to put to test 5
- and they put to test 4
- to put to test you 2
- i have put to test 2
- to put to test him 2
- he put to test 1
- he put to test it 1
- i should put to test it 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 7
- Psalms 6
- Exodus 5
- Judges 4
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Ecclesiastes 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 1:14In contextSo he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
- Genesis 22:1And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
- Exodus 15:25And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
- Exodus 16:4Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
- Exodus 17:2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
- Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
Hebrew dictionary
נָסָה nasah · to test
: test 1) to test, try, prove, tempt, assay, put to the proof or test 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to test, try 1a2) to attempt, assay, try 1a3) to test, try, prove, tempt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “test” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEST, noun
[Latin testa, an earthen pot.]
- In metallurgy, a large cupel, or a vessel in the nature of a cupel, formed of wood ashes and finely powdered brick dust, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.
- Means of trial.
- That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.
All definitions and other forms of “test”
- Discriminative characteristic; standard.
- Judgment; distinction.
- In chimistry, a substance employed to detect any unknown constituent of a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property.
TEST, noun
[Latin testis, a witness, properly one that affirms.]
TEST, verb transitive
To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
- To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.
- In metallurgy, to refine gold or silver by means of lead, in a test by the destruction, vitrification or scarification of all extraneous matter.
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.