11 translations · Hebrew
Psalm 139:23
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Psalm 139:23 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
- KJV King James Version
- Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Search me, O God, and know my heart, || Try me, and know my thoughts,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Examine me carefully, God, so you can be sure of my true feelings. Check me out so you can know what I really think.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899 · Psalm 138:23 in this edition
- Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָקְרֵ֣נִי | ḥā·qə·rê·nî | Search me | H2713 חָקַר to search |
| אֵ֭ל | ’êl | O God | H410 אֵל God |
| וְדַ֣ע | wə·ḏa‘ | and know | H3045 יָדַע to know |
| לְבָבִ֑י | lə·ḇā·ḇî | my heart | H3824 לֵבָב heart |
| בְּ֝חָנֵ֗נִי | bə·ḥā·nê·nî | test me | H974 בָּחַן to test |
| וְדַ֣ע | wə·ḏa‘ | and know | H3045 יָדַע to know |
| שַׂרְעַפָּֽי׃ | śar·‘ap·pāy | my concerns | H8312 שַׂרְעַפִּים anxiety |
Related verses
- Psalm 26:2
Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
- Job 31:6
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
- 1 Peter 1:7
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—
- Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
- Deuteronomy 8:2
You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Psalm 139:1
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
- Zechariah 13:9
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
- Jeremiah 11:20
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
- Malachi 3:2–3
“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap; and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
- Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
21 Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
Read all of Psalm 139 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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