Strong's G1381 δοκιμάζω (dokimazo)

For the ear tries words, And the mouth tastes meat.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me by night; Thou hast tried me as with fire, and unrighteousness has not been found in me: I am purposed that my mouth shall not speak amiss.

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; Purify as with fire my reins and my heart.

For thou, O God, hast proved us; Thou hast tried us with fire as silver is tried.

Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: Let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, So that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: Scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.

Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.

Where your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my works.

For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me.

Prove me, O God, and know my heart; Examine me, and know my paths;

Receive instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than tried gold.

As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, So are choice hearts with the Lord.

I have caused thee to be tried among tried nations, and thou shalt know me when I have tried their way.

Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.

O Lord, that judgest righteously, trying the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance taken upon them, for to thee I have declared my cause.

But thou, Lord, knowest me; thou hast proved my heart before thee; purify them for the day of their slaughter.

I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits of his devices.

O Lord, that provest just deeds, understanding the reins and hearts, let me see thy vengeance upon them: for to thee I have revealed my cause.

And the Lord said to me, Drop them into the furnace, and I will see if it is good metal, as I was proved for their sakes. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them into the furnace in the house of the Lord.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon my name, and I will hear them, and say, This is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

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.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

That 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:

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Then the king, enclosing the place, made it holy, after he had tried the matter.

But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon’s faction murders were committed,

Thou didst make known thy power when thou causedst the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of thy people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions.

For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.

For froward thoughts separate from God: And his power, when it is tried, reproveth the unwise.

Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, That we may know his meekness, And prove his patience.

As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, And received them as a burnt offering.

For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: But the others, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

For gold is tried in the fire, And acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

She will lie upon him as a mighty stone of trial; And he will cast her from him ere it be long.

The furnace proveth the potter’s vessels; So the trial of man is in his reasoning.

He that hath no experience knoweth little: But he that hath traveled is full of prudence.

So is it with a man that fasteth for his sins, And goeth again, and doeth the same: Who will hear his prayer? Or what doth his humbling profit him?

Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, And the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young: Thus shalt thou be truly learned, And approved of all men living.