# H5254 נָסָה

נָסָה (nâçâh), Strong’s H5254: to test; by implication, to attempt KJV: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.. Occurs 36 times.

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*nâçâh* — to test; by implication, to attempt

KJV: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.

Occurs 36 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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]

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 22:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=1) — After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
- [Exodus 15:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/15?v=25) — 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…
- [Exodus 16:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=4) — 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…
- [Exodus 17:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=2) — Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel…
- [Exodus 17:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/17?v=7) — He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested…
- [Exodus 20:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=20) — 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…
- [Numbers 14:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/14?v=22) — because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have…
- [Deuteronomy 4:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=34) — Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by…
- [Deuteronomy 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/6?v=16) — You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- [Deuteronomy 8:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=2) — You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might…