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# בֹּחַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H976

**testing** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

testing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/976/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹּ֫חַן: testing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/976/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] testing, Is 28:16 אֶבֶן בֹּחַן a tested, tried stone, i.e. approved for use as a foundation-stone. On Ez 21:18 MT v. foreg. ad fin.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of testing (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.16/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה הִנְנִ֛י יִסַּ֥ד בְּצִיּ֖וֹן אָ֑בֶן אֶ֣בֶן בֹּ֜חַן פִּנַּ֤ת יִקְרַת֙ מוּסָ֣ד מוּסָּ֔ד הַֽמַּאֲמִ֖ין לֹ֥א יָחִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* therefore thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh here I he.has.laid in Zion a.stone a.stone of.testing a.corner of.preciousness of.a.foundation founded the.\[one who\].trusts not he.will.make.haste

*JPS 1917:* Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a costly corner-stone of sure foundation; he that believeth shall not make haste.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/976.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/976/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).