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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Verb Strong's Number: g1381 Greek: dokimazo

Prove:

"to test, prove," with the expectation of approving, is translated "to prove" in Luk 14:19; Rom 12:2; 1Cr 3:13, RV (AV, "shall try"); 11:28, RV (AV, "examine"); 2Cr 8:8, 22; 13:5; Gal 6:4; Eph 5:10; 1Th 2:4 (2nd part), RV (AV, "trieth"); 5:21; 1Ti 3:10; in some mss. Hbr 3:9 (the most authentic have the noun dokimasia, "a proving"); 1Pe 1:7, RV (AV, "tried"); 1Jo 4:1, RV (AV, "try").
See APPROVE.

A-2 Verb Strong's Number: g584 Greek: apodeiknumi

Prove:

"to show forth," signifies "to prove" in Act 25:7.
See APPROVE, No. 3.

A-3 Verb Strong's Number: g3936 Greek: paristemi

Prove:

"to present," signifies "to prove" in Act 24:13.
See COMMEND, No. 4.

A-4 Verb Strong's Number: g3985 Greek: peirazo

Prove:

"to try," either in the sense of attempting, e.g., Act 16:7, or of testing, is rendered "to prove" in Jhn 6:6.
See EXAMINE, TEMPT.

A-5 Verb Strong's Number: g4822 Greek: sumbibazo

Prove:

"to join together," signifies "to prove" in Act 9:22.
See COMPACTED, No. 2.

A-6 Verb Strong's Number: g4921 Greek: sunistemi | sunistano

Prove:

"to commend, to prove," is translated "I prove (myself a transgressor)" in Gal 2:18 (AV, "I make").
See COMMEND.

B-1 Noun Strong's Number: g3986 Greek: peirasmos

Prove:

(a) "a trying, testing,"

(b) "a temptation," is used in sense (a) in 1Pe 4:12, with the preposition pros, "towards" or "with a view to," RV, "to prove" (AV, "to try"), lit., "for a testing."
See TEMPTATION.

Notes:

(1) In Luk 10:36, RV, ginomai, "to become, come to be," is translated "proved (neighbor)," AV, "was...;" so in Hbr 2:2.

(2) In Rom 3:9, AV, proatitiaomai, "to accuse beforehand," is translated "we have before proved" (marg., "charged"); for the RV, see CHARGE, C, No. 9.

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