dokimē (test) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “proof”, “character” and “proven worth”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

proof 3
character 2
a proof 1
the proven worth 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Corinthians 4
Romans 1
Philippians 1

3 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

2 Corinthians 2:9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.
2 Corinthians 8:2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
2 Corinthians 9:13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
2 Corinthians 13:3Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
Philippians 2:22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Greek dictionary

δοκιμή dokimē · test

δοκιμή, -ῆς, ἡ (δόκιμος), [in Sm.: Psa.68:31 * ;] 1. the process of trial, proving, test: 2Co.8:2 9:13 2. The result of trial, approval, approvedness, proof: Rom.5:4, 2Co.2:9 13:3, Php.2:22 (Cremer, 212, 701).† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “test” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TEST, noun

[Latin testa, an earthen pot.]

In metallurgy, a large cupel, or a vessel in the nature of a cupel, formed of wood ashes and finely powdered brick dust, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.
Means of trial.
That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.

All definitions and other forms of “test”

Discriminative characteristic; standard.
Judgment; distinction.
In chimistry, a substance employed to detect any unknown constituent of a compound, by causing it to exhibit some known property.

TEST, noun

[Latin testis, a witness, properly one that affirms.]

TEST, verb transitive

To compare with a standard; to try; to prove the truth or genuineness of any thing by experiment or by some fixed principle or standard; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.

To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.
In metallurgy, to refine gold or silver by means of lead, in a test by the destruction, vitrification or scarification of all extraneous matter.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.