G3984 πεῖρα
peîra — a test, i.e. attempt, experience
KJV: assaying, trial
Derived from πέραν péran (through)
Occurs 8 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Hebrews 11:29 — By faith they passed through the Sea of Suf as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
- Hebrews 11:36 — Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- Wisdom of Solomon 18:20 — The experience of death also touched the righteous, and a multitude were destroyed in the wilderness, but the wrath…
- Wisdom of Solomon 18:25 — The destroyer yielded to these, and they feared; for it was enough only to test the wrath.
- 2 Maccabees 8:9 — Ptolemy quickly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king’s chief friends, and sent him, in command of no…
- 4 Maccabees 7:25 — for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the…