Psalms 66:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־בְחַנְתָּ֥נוּ אֱלֹהִ֑ים צְ֝רַפְתָּ֗נוּ כִּצְרָף־כָּֽסֶף׃

Transliteration

For-bəḥantānû ʾĕlōhîm ṣəraptānû as ṣərāp-kāsep

Grammar Details

*bəḥantānû*: verb qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person plural suffix - you tested us
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural - God (despite plural form, treated as singular)
*ṣəraptānû*: verb qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person plural suffix - you refined us
*ṣərāp*: verb qal infinitive construct - refining of
*kāsep*: noun masculine singular - silver

Word Meanings

*bəḥantānû*: you tested us/examined us/tried us
*ṣəraptānû*: you refined us/purified us/tried us
*ṣərāp*: refining/purifying/smelting
*kāsep*: silver/money

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 17:3 : 3 Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Isa 48:10 : 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part into 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, Jehovah is my God.
1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Prov 17:3 : 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.
Deut 8:2 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.
Deut 8:16 : 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:
Deut 13:3 : 3 you shall not listen unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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