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To test/tempt

ἐκπειράζωStrong’s G1598

ekpeirazō

Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament

In short

Ekpeirazō is the Greek word usually translated “test”, “testing” and “shall we test”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.

“Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”
Matthew 4:7 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “test”, “testing” and “shall we test”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • you will test 2
  • testing 1
  • shall we test 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 2
  • Matthew 1
  • 1 Corinthians 1

3 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

ἐκπειράζω ekpeirazō · to test/tempt

ἐκ-πειράζω [in LXX: Deu.6:16 8:2, 16 Psa.78:18 (נָסָה pi.) * ;] = cl. ἐκπειράομαι, to put to the proof or test, make trial of, tempt: with accusative, of God, Mat.4:7 (LXX), Luk.4:12 (ib.), 1Co.10:9; of Christ, Luk.10:25 (Cremer, 497).† (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.]

  1. 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.
  2. Trial; examination by the cupel; hence, any critical trial and examination.
  3. Means of trial.
  4. That with which any thing is compared for proof of its genuineness; a standard.
All definitions and other forms of “test”
  1. Discriminative characteristic; standard.
  2. Judgment; distinction.
  3. 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.

    1. To attest and date; as a writing tested on such a day.
    2. 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.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.