1 Corinthians 14:29 is the instruction almost nobody reads as an instruction. Let two or three speak, and let the others weigh what is said. The verb is diakrino, and the room is being commanded to do it. Not the elder. Not the one with the credential. The others.

The word means to judge between, to separate one thing from another, which puts it very close to the Hebrew binah and its sense of telling between. Yeshua uses it in Matthew 16:3 for reading the sky, and Sha'ul uses it in 1 Corinthians 11 for a man weighing himself before the table.

Then there is the second sense, and it is the one worth sitting with. In the middle voice diakrino turns inward and means to be divided, to dispute, to waver. James 1:6 uses it for the man who asks and doubts, and Romans 4:20 says Avraham did not waver, same verb. So the language holds both together: the weighing a man refuses to let others do, and the wavering a man does inside himself. One word for the offering that never gets weighed and the heart that cannot settle.