'Explored' in the Bible
So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath.
So they put out this false report to the Israelis about the land that they had explored: "The land that we've explored is one that devours its inhabitants. All the people whom we observed were giants.
Nun's son Joshua and Jephunneh's son Caleb, who had accompanied the others who also had explored the land, tore their clothes
and said to the entire Israelite community: “The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land.
Now as to my servant Caleb, because a different spirit is within him and he has remained true to me, I'm going to bring him into the land that he explored, and his descendants are to inherit it.
Just as you explored the land for 40 days, you'll bear the consequences of your iniquities for 40 years one year for each day as you experience my hostility.
However, Nun's son Joshua and Jephunneh's son Caleb, who had explored the land, remained alive.