Genesis 42:15
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
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Proved
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Hebrews 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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בָּחַן
bâchan · baw-khan'
6 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
Strong's KJV usage: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
Strong's first: Genesis 42:15Strong's last: Psalms 95:9
Open full H974 profile →נָסָה
nâçâh · naw-saw'
5 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to test; by implication, to attempt
Strong's KJV usage: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.
Strong's first: Exodus 15:25Strong's last: Daniel 1:14
Open full H5254 profile →δοκιμάζω
dokimázō · dok-im-ad'-zo
3 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve
Strong's KJV usage: :--allow, discern, examine, X like, (ap-)prove, try.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 8:22Strong's last: Hebrews 3:9
Open full G1381 profile →προαιτιάομαι
proaitiáomai · pro-ahee-tee-ah'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to accuse already, i.e. previously charge
Strong's KJV usage: :--prove before.
Strong's first: Romans 3:9Strong's last: Romans 3:9
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H974
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
H974
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
H5254
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
H5254
And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
H5254
And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
H974
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
H974
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
H974
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
H974
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
H5254
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
H5254
So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
G4256
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
G1381
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
G1381
And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
G1381
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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proved
PROVED, participle passive Tried; evinced; experienced.
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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