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πεῖραStrong’s G3984

peira

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Peira is the Greek word usually translated “attempt” and “trial”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.”
Hebrews 11:29 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “attempt” and “trial”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • an attempt 1
  • trial 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Hebrews 2

1 book in all.

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Greek dictionary

πεῖρα peira · test

πεῖρα, -ας, ἡ (πειράω), [in LXX: Deu.28:56 (π. λαμβάνειν, נָסָה pi.) Deu.33:8 (מַסָּה), Wis.18:20, 25, 2Ma.8:9, 4Ma.8:1 * ;] trial, experiment; π. λαμβάνειν, to make trial, have experience of: Heb.11:29, 36 (for exx., see Field, Notes, 232 f.).† (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.