2001 Translation

PEIRA, peira

Sounds Like: PEI-rah

Translations: trial, a trial, test, a test, attempt, an attempt, experience, an experience

From the root: ΠΕΙΡΑ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a trial, test, or attempt, often implying an experience that proves or demonstrates something. It can also denote an experiment or an effort to do something. It is used to describe situations where one's character, faith, or abilities are put to the test.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G3986 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:37, 9:27

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 4:44, 4:55, 6:161
• Book 3 — 1:19
• Book 4 — 6:151
• Book 5 — 1:40, 1:107
• Book 8 — 6:168, 8:219
• Book 9 — 2:23
• Book 15 — 6:193, 9:316
• Book 16 — 8:239
• Book 18 — 8:303
• Book 20 — 2:28

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Four — 3:60
• Book Five — 12:26
• Book Seven — 2:8, 3:15, 6:31

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 3:3, 63:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 33:8
• Wisdom — 18:20, 18:25

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΕΙΡΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΠΕΙΡΑΙ — trials, tests, attempts, a trial, a test, an attempt, to a trial, to a test, to an attempt
• ΠΕΙΡΑΙΣ — trial, a trial, test, an attempt, experience, an experience
• ΠΕΙΡΑΝ — trial, a trial, test, a test, attempt, an attempt, experience, an experience
• ΠΕΙΡΑΣ — trial, a trial, test, a test, attempt, an attempt, experience, an experience

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