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Meaning of “try”

Sense 1: To examine, test, prove, search, or discern. Sense 2: To refine or prove by fire so that quality is made manifest.

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KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
17 occurrences17 verses12 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Judges 7:4

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2 Chronicles 32:31
¶ Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
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1611 witness · 2 Chronicles 32:31 · retained source text

¶ Howbeit, in the businesse of the Embassadours of the Princes of Babylon, who sent vnto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

1611 marginal noteHeb. interpreters.

1611 marginal note2.King. 20.12. isa. 39.1.

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To examine or make experiment on; to prove by a test; to search carefully; to act upon as a test; or to purify and refine.

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