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Psalms 95:9

95:8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: provocation: Heb. contention
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

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when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

What does Psalms 95:9 mean?

Psalms 95:9 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include אָב (ʼâb), נָסָה (nâçâh), בָּחַן (bâchan).

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When
your
fathersאָבʼâb/awb/H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
temptedנָסָהnâçâh/naw-saw'/H5254to test; by implication, to attempt
me,
provedבָּחַןbâchan/baw-khan'/H974to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
me,
and
sawרָאָהrâʼâh/raw-aw'/H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
my
work.פֹּעַלpôʻal/po'-al/H6467an act or work (concretely)

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ObduracyQuotations and AllusionsUnbelief

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 95:9.

Genesis 12:1

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

Genesis 9:23

And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Psalms 26:2

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

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What does Psalms 95:9 say?

Psalms 95:9 (King James Version) reads: "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work."

Is Psalms 95:9 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 95:9 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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