fraudulent, deceitful, 2 Cor. 11:13*

a beam, or spar of timber, Mt. 7:3, 4, 5; Lk. 6:41, 42*

proved, tried; approved, after examination and trial, Rom. 16:10; Jas. 1:12; by impl. acceptable, Rom. 14:18

that by means of which anything is tried, proof, criterion, test; trial, the act of trying, or putting to proof, Jas. 1:3; approved character, 1 Pet. 1:7*

trial, proof by trial, 2 Cor. 8:2; the state or disposition of that which has been tried and approved, approved character or temper, Rom. 5:4; 2 Cor. 2:9; Phil.

proof, probation, testing, examination, Heb. 3:9*

to test, assay, metals, 1 Pet. 1:7; to prove, try, examine, scrutinize, Lk. 14:19; Rom. 12:2; to put to the proof, tempt, Heb. 3:9; to approve after trial, judge worthy, choose, Rom.

to think, imagine, suppose, presume, Mt. 3:9; 6:7; to seem, appear, Lk. 10:36; Acts 17:18; it seems; it seems good, best, or right, it pleases, Lk. 1:3; Acts 15:22, 25

to decree, prescribe an ordinance;, mid. to suffer laws to be imposed on one's self, to submit to, bind one's self by, ordinances, Col. 2:20*

a decree, statute, ordinance, Lk. 2:1; Acts 16:4; 17:7; Eph. 2:15; Col. 2:14*