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Proved [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tried; evinced; experienced.

Proved [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Proveditor [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. PROVED'ITOR

2. PROVEDO'RE, noun A purveyor; one employed to procure supplies for an army.

3. Proveditor, in Venice and other parts of Italy, is an officer who superintends matters of policy.

Proveditor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.

Provedore [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A proveditor; a purveyor.

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16 KJV and 8 BSB verses contain “Proved” — showing the first 20. Show all 24 verses (searchable)

Genesis 42:15

Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

And this is how you will be tested: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

Genesis 42:16

Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”

Exodus 15:25

And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

1 Samuel 17:39

And David girded his sword upon his armour, 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.

David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.

1 Kings 16:22

But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

But the followers of Omri proved stronger than those of Tibni son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri became king.

Job 32:12

Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

Psalms 17:3

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.

Psalms 51:4

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

Psalms 66:10

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

Psalms 81:7

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.

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Psalms 95:9

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.

Psalms 105:19

Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

until his prediction came true and the word of the LORD proved him right.

Ecclesiastes 2:1

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good!” But it proved to be futile.

Ecclesiastes 7:23

All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.

All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.

Daniel 1:14

So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.

So he consented to this and tested them for ten days.

Romans 3:4

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

Romans 3:9

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.

2 Corinthians 7:11

For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

2 Corinthians 8:22

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

And we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.