Psalms 66:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

For you, O God, have proved us; you have 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For You, God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver is refined.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thou, O God, hast proved{H8804)} us: thou hast tried{H8804)} us, as silver is tried{H8800)}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Thou hast brought vs in to captiuyte, and layed trouble vpon or loynes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For thou, O God, hast proued vs, thou hast tryed vs as siluer is tryed.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For thou O Lord hast proued vs: thou hast tryed vs, like as siluer is tryed.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For Thou hast tried us, O God, Thou hast refined us as the refining of silver.

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 17:3 : 3 You have tested my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tried me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
• Isa 48:10 : 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 In which you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
• Prov 17:3 : 3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts.
• Deut 8:2 : 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;
• Deut 13:3 : 3 You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God tests you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
• Job 23:10 : 10 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.