Psalms 26:2
Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
*Examine me, O LORD, and proue me; try my reines and my heart.
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- *Cross-referencePsal.7.10
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- Psalms 139:23–24Rank 1 from verse 2
23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
23Search me, O God, and knowe my heart: trie mee, and knowe my thoughts:
24†And see if there bee any wicked way in me: and leade me in the way euerlasting.
- Psalms 7:9Rank 2 from verse 2
- Psalms 17:3Rank 3 from verse 2
3Thou 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.
3Thou hast prooued 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 transgresse.
- Zechariah 13:9Rank 4 from verse 2
9And 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.
9*And I will bring the thirde part through the fire, and wil refine them as siluer is refined, & will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my Name, and I wil heare them: I wil say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Jeremiah 20:12Rank 6 from verse 2
12But, O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
12*But O LORD of hostes, that tryest the righteous, and seest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.
- Job 31:4–6Rank 7 from verse 2
4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
4*Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps?
5If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
6†Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie.
- Psalms 66:10Rank 8 from verse 2
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Psalms 26:2
To inspect, inquire into, question, test, or scrutinize carefully in order to discover the truth or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
The divine name of the living God, also named JEHOVAH.
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To test, try, examine, or establish as true by evidence.
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Sense 1: To examine, test, prove, search, or discern. Sense 2: To refine or prove by fire so that quality is made manifest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The kidneys. Sense 2: Figuratively, the innermost thoughts, affections, or feelings.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.
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1JUDGE me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
1¶ Iudge me, O LORD, for I haue walked in mine integritie: I haue trusted also in the LORD: therfore I shall not slide.
2Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
2*Examine me, O LORD, and proue me; try my reines and my heart.
Selected passage3For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
3For thy louing kindnesse is before mine eyes: and I haue walked in thy trueth.