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Psalm 17

Psa. 17:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou hast proved
bachan (Hebrew #974)
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
KJV usage: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
Pronounce: baw-khan'
Origin: a primitive root
a mine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
; thou hast visited
paqad (Hebrew #6485)
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
KJV usage: appoint, X at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, X by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, X surely, visit, want.
Pronounce: paw-kad'
Origin: a primitive root
me in the night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
; thou hast tried
tsaraph (Hebrew #6884)
to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: cast, (re-)fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.
Pronounce: tsaw-raf'
Origin: a primitive root
me, and shalt find
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
nothing; I am purposed
zamam (Hebrew #2161)
to plan, usually in a bad sense
KJV usage: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Pronounce: zaw-mam'
Origin: a primitive root
that my mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
shallc not transgress
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 139:23• 23Search me, O God, and know my heart;{HR}Prove me, and know my thoughts; (Psa. 139:23)
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Psa. 39:1‑2• 1To the chief musician, to Jeduthun; a psalm of David.{HR}I said, I will keep my ways, from sinning with my tongue;{HR}I will keep a muzzle to my mouth, while the wicked [man is] before me.
 2I have been dumb [in] silence,{HR}I held my peace from good,{HR}But my pain was excited. (Psa. 39:1‑2)
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Prov. 13:3• 3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul;{HR}He that openeth wide his lips [shall have] destruction. (Prov. 13:3)

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Ministry on This Verse

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proved.
Psa. 11:5• 5Jehovah proveth the righteous [man];{HR}And the wicked [man]{HR}And him who loveth violence his soul hateth. (Psa. 11:5)
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Psa. 26:2• 2Prove me, O Jehovah, and try me;{HR}Purify my reins and my heart. (Psa. 26:2)
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Psa. 66:10• 10For thou hast proved us, O God,{HR}Thou hast assayed us as silver is assayed. (Psa. 66:10)
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Psa. 139:1• 1To the chief musician: a psalm of David.{HR}Jehovah, thou hast searched me and knowest. (Psa. 139:1)
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Job 23:10• 10But he knoweth the way, who is with me;{HR}He trieth me, as gold I come forth. (Job 23:10)
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Zech. 13:9• 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. {i}They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.{/i} (Zech. 13:9)
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Mal. 3:2• 2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers’ soap: (Mal. 3:2)
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1 Cor. 4:4• 4Nay, I do not examine even myself, for I am conscious to myself of nothing, yet I am not justified by this, but he that examineth me is the Lord. (1 Cor. 4:4)
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1 Peter 1:7• 7that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perisheth though proved by fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ: (1 Peter 1:7)
thou hast.
Psa. 16:7• 7I will bless Jehovah who hath counselled me;{HR}Also by night my reins have admonished me. (Psa. 16:7)
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Job 24:14• 14With the light the murderer riseth,{HR}He slayeth the poor and needy,{HR}And in the night he is as a thief. (Job 24:14)
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Hos. 7:6• 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. (Hos. 7:6)
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Mic. 2:1• 1Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. (Mic. 2:1)
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Acts 16:9• 9And a vision appeared to Paul by night. There was a certain man of Macedon standing and beseeching him and saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us. (Acts 16:9)
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Acts 18:9‑10• 9And the Lord said by night through a vision to Paul, Fear not, but speak, and be not silent,
 10because I am with thee and no one shall set on thee to harm thee; because I have much people in this city. (Acts 18:9‑10)
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Psa. 7:4• 4If I have recompensed with evil him that is at peace with me;{HR}If I have spoiled mine adversary without a cause; (Psa. 7:4)
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Psa. 44:17‑21• 17All this has come upon us;{HR}Yet have we not forgotten thee,{HR}And we have not acted falsely to thy covenant.
 18Our heart hath not turned backward,{HR}Nor hath our step declined from thy path.
 19But thou hast broken us to pieces in the place of large serpents,{HR}And hast covered us over with the shadow of death.
 20If we have forgotten the name of our God,{HR}And have stretched out our hands to a strange god,
 21Will not God search this out?{HR}For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. (Psa. 44:17‑21)
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1 Sam. 24:10,12• 10Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had delivered thee today into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eyes spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is Jehovah's anointed.
 12Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. (1 Sam. 24:10,12)
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1 Sam. 26:11,23• 11{i}Jehovah forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed! But now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.{/i}
 23Jehovah render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for Jehovah delivered thee into my hand today, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against Jehovah's anointed. (1 Sam. 26:11,23)
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2 Cor. 1:12• 12For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience that in holiness f and sincerity before God, not in carnal wisdom but in God's grace, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you. (2 Cor. 1:12)
I am.
Psa. 39:1• 1To the chief musician, to Jeduthun; a psalm of David.{HR}I said, I will keep my ways, from sinning with my tongue;{HR}I will keep a muzzle to my mouth, while the wicked [man is] before me. (Psa. 39:1)
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Psa. 119:106• 106I have sworn, and will perform,{HR}To keep thy righteous judgments. (Psa. 119:106)
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Prov. 13:3• 3He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul;{HR}He that openeth wide his lips [shall have] destruction. (Prov. 13:3)
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Acts 11:23• 23who on arriving and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide by the Lord. (Acts 11:23)
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James 3:2• 2For in many things we all offend. If anyone offendeth not in word, he [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. (James 3:2)
• Here it is the righteous life which God looks at and vindicates against the men of this world, for it is Christ and Christians as far as they live the life of Christ. Immediately, as ever, it is Christ and the remnant. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 17” by J.N. Darby)
• His heart was proved, only to make manifest that His secret thoughts never went beyond His words. He did not say one thing and think another (JND). (“Psalm 17” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited [me] by night;{HR}Thou hast refined me; thou shalt find nothing;{HR}I have purposed, my mouth shall not transgress.