Exodus 16:4
Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
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Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Read in context →Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Read in context →4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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nâçâh · naw-saw'
to test; by implication, to attempt
Strong's KJV usage: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.
Strong's first: Exodus 16:4Strong's last: Daniel 1:12
Open full H5254 profile →dokimázō · dok-im-ad'-zo
to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve
Strong's KJV usage: :--allow, discern, examine, X like, (ap-)prove, try.
Strong's first: Luke 14:19Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 5:21
Open full G1381 profile →apodeíknymi · ap-od-ike'-noo-mee
to show off, i.e. exhibit; figuratively, to demonstrate, i.e. accredit
Strong's KJV usage: :--(ap-)prove, set forth, shew.
Strong's first: Acts 25:7Strong's last: Acts 25:7
Open full G584 profile →peirázō · pi-rad'-zo
to test (objectively), i.e. endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline
Strong's KJV usage: :--assay, examine, go about, prove, tempt(-er), try.
Strong's first: John 6:6Strong's last: John 6:6
Open full G3985 profile →bâchan · baw-khan'
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
Strong's KJV usage: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
Strong's first: Malachi 3:10Strong's last: Malachi 3:10
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Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
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;
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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PROVE, verb transitive prov. [Latin probo.]
1. To try; to ascertain some unknown quality or truth by an experiment, or by a test or standard. Thus we prove the strength of gunpowder by experiment; we prove the strength or solidity of cannon by experiment. We prove the contents of a vessel by comparing it with a standard measure.
2. To evince, establish or ascertain as truth, reality or fact, by testimony or other evidence. The plaintiff in a suit, must prove the truth of his declaration; the prosecutor must prove his charges against the accused.
3. To evince truth by argument, induction or reasoning; to deduce certain conclusions from propositions that are true or admitted. If it is admitted that every immoral act is dishonorable to a rational being, and that dueling is an immoral act; then it is proved by necessary inference, that dueling is dishonorable to a rational being.
4. To ascertain the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
5. To experience; to try by suffering or encountering; to gain certain knowledge by the operation of something on ourselves, or by some act of our own.
Let him in arms the power of Turnus prove
6. In arithmetic, to show, evince or ascertain the correctness of any operation or result. Thus in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved. In other words, if the sum of the remainder and of the subtrahend, is equal to the minuend, the operation of subtraction is proved to be correct.
7. To try; to examine.
PROVE your own selves. 2 Corinthians 13:5.
8. Men prove God, when by their provocations they put his patience to trial, Psalms 95:9; or when by obedience they make trial how much he will countenance such conduct, Malachi 3:10.
PROVE, verb intransitive To make trial; to essay.
The sons prepare--
To prove by arms whose fate it was to reign.
1. To be found or to have its qualities ascertained by experience or trial; as, a plant or medicine proves salutary.
2. To be ascertained by the event or something subsequent; as the report proves to be true, or proves to be false.
3. To be found true or correct by the result.
4. To make certain; to show; to evince.
This argument proves how erroneous is the common opinion.
5. To succeed.
If the experiment proved not--
[Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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