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Psalms 26:2
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Psalms 26:2
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.
- Psal.7.10
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 26:2
To test or scrutinize closely.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To test, try, examine, or establish as true by evidence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
The kidneys; figuratively, the innermost thoughts, affections, or feelings.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
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Open the full verse study23Search 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.
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Open the full verse study9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
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Open the full verse study3Thou 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.
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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 study23How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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Open the full verse study12But, 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.
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Open the full verse study4Doth 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.
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Open the full verse study10For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
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