'Investigate' in the Bible

"Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them."

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country

Then they presented the Israelites with a discouraging report of the land they had investigated, saying, "The land that we passed through to investigate is a land that devours its inhabitants. All the people we saw there are of great stature.

They said to the whole community of the Israelites, "The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.