'Proved' in the Bible
hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
An he cried unto Jehovah; And Jehovah showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them;
And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah
When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor unto him that fell among the robbers?
and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.
And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.
For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ: