Topic
Examine; Examination
12 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Ezra 10:16ISBE
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
- Psalms 26:2ISBE
Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
- Luke 23:14ISBE
Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
- Acts 4:9ISBE
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
- Acts 12:19ISBE
And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judæa to Cæsarea, and there abode.
- Acts 22:24ISBE
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
- Acts 22:29ISBE
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
- Acts 25:26ISBE
Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
- Acts 28:18ISBE
Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
- 1 Corinthians 9:3ISBE
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
- 1 Corinthians 11:28ISBE
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
- 2 Corinthians 13:5ISBE
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?
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 12 references
eg-zam'-in, eg-zam-i-na'-shun:
darash, "to follow," "inquire," "make inquisition" (Ezr 10:16); and bachan, "to test," "investigate," "prove," "tempt" (Ps 26:2). The former was the judicial term. anakrino, "scrutinize," "investigate," "interrogate" (in court), "judge," "search" (Lu 23:14; Ac 4:9; 12:19; 28:18; 1Co 9:3); and anetazo, "to investigate" (judicially), "examine" (Ac 22:24,29). Also dokimazo, "to test," "examine," "try" (1Co 11:28 the King James Version); and peirazo, "scrutinize," "discipline" (2Co 13:5 the King James Version). The noun anakrisis, "examination," "investigation," occurs in Ac 25:26.
See also COURTS, JUDICIAL.
Frank E. Hirsch
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.