πειρασμός
peirasmos
Masculine noun · From πειράζω (G3985)
From G3985; a putting to proof (by experiment (of good), experience (of evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication, adversity:—temptation, × try.
Outline
- an experiment, attempt, trial, proving
- 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. 4:14)
- the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy
- an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances
- an internal temptation to sin
- of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand
- 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
- adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness
- temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men
- rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves