{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5254",
  "lemma": "נָסָה",
  "transliteration": "nâçâh",
  "definition": "to test; by implication, to attempt",
  "kjv": "adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.",
  "occurrences": 36,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[נָסָה] vb. Pi. test, try",
    "1. test, try",
    "2. attempt, assay, try to do a thing",
    "3. test, try, prove, tempt [but not in the modern sense of the word]"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:1",
      "text": "After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 15:25",
      "text": "Then he cried to the LORD. The LORD showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:4",
      "text": "Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:2",
      "text": "Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 17:7",
      "text": "He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 20:20",
      "text": "Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 14:22",
      "text": "because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:34",
      "text": "Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 6:16",
      "text": "You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/6?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:2",
      "text": "You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=2"
    }
  ],
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