'Investigate' in the Bible

then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,

The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely,

Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and investigate and see how this sin has happened today.

Go now, make more sure, and investigate and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very cunning.

But the exiles did so. And Ezra the priest selected men who were heads of fathers’ households for each of their father’s households, all of them by name. So they convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter.

I directed my mind to know, to investigate and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of folly and the foolishness of madness.

Being at a loss how to investigate such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there stand trial on these matters.