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Psalms 139:23
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Psalms 139:23
23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
23Search me, O God, and knowe my heart: trie mee, and knowe my thoughts:
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 139:23
To seek carefully, examine, explore, or inquire in order to find or know.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To test, examine, search, prove, or discern the person, heart, spirit, work, words, or way named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Ideas, judgments, purposes, plans, reflections, or anxieties of the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study2Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
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Open the full verse study7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
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Open the full verse study6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
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Open the full verse study3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
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Open the full verse study2And 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.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
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Open the full verse study9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
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Open the full verse study20But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
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Open the full verse study2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
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Open the full verse study16Who 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;
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