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King James Bible

Strongs Number: G3986


Greek Word
πειρασμός
Transliteration
peirasmos
Phonetic
pi-ras-mos'
Part of Speech
Noun Masculine
Strongs Definition

a putting to proof (by experiment [of good] experience [of evil] solicitation discipline or provocation); by implication adversity

Thayers Definition

1. an experiment, attempt, trial, proving

a. trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Gal. 4:

2.

a. the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy

1. an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances

2. an internal temptation to sin 1b

b. of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand

1. of the condition of things, or a mental state, by which we are enticed to sin, or to a lapse from the faith and holiness

2. adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness

c. temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men

1. rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves

Origin
From G3985
Bible Usage
temptation X-(idiom) try.