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Name of God’s Son

ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΝ, πειρασμον

PEIRASMON, peirasmon

Sounds Like: pei-ras-MON

Translations: temptation, a temptation, trial, a trial, testing, a testing, enticement, an enticement

From the root: ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a test, trial, or temptation. It can describe an external challenge or an internal enticement to do wrong. It is often used in a religious context to refer to spiritual trials or temptations from evil.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3986 (Lookup on BibleHub)


Instances

Codex Sinaiticus
Polycarp of Smyrna
  • Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 7:2
Pseudo Clement of Rome
  • Clement’s Second Letter — 18:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
  • Sirach — 2:1
The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments
  • Mandate 9 — 1:7
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
Twelve Disciples
  • The Didache — 8:2

From the same root

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

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.

  • ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΙΣ — to temptations, to trials, to tests, for temptations, for trials, for tests, by temptations, by trials, by tests, with temptations, with trials, with tests
  • ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΣ — temptation, a temptation, trial, a trial, test, a test
  • ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΥ — of temptation, of trial, of testing, of enticement
  • ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΥΣ — temptations, trials, tests
  • ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΩ — (to) temptation, (to) trial, (to) testing, (to) a temptation, (to) a trial, (to) a testing
  • ΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΩΝ — of temptations, of trials, of tests, of enticements
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΘΙΣ — temptation, a temptation, trial, a trial, testing, a testing, enticement, an enticement
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΟ — temptation, a temptation, trial, a trial, testing, a testing, enticement, an enticement
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΟΙΣ — to temptations, in temptations, by temptations, with temptations, to trials, in trials, by trials, with trials
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΟΝ — temptation, trial, testing, a temptation, a trial, a testing
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΟΥ — (of) temptation, (of) trial, (of) testing
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΟΥΣ — temptations, trials, tests
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΩ — to temptation, to trial, to testing, to enticement
  • ΠΙΡΑΣΜΩΝ — of temptations, of trials, of tests, of allurements
  • ΤΟΥΠΕΙΡΑΣΜΟΥ — (of) temptation, (of) trial, (of) testing

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