# G3984 πεῖρα

πεῖρα (peîra), Strong’s G3984: a test, i.e. attempt, experience KJV: assaying, trial. Occurs 8 times.

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*peîra* — a test, i.e. attempt, experience

KJV: assaying, trial

Derived from [πέραν péran](https://besorah.bible/word/G4008) (through)

Occurs 8 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Hebrews 11:29](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/11?v=36) — Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- [Wisdom of Solomon 18:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/18?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/18?v=25) — The destroyer yielded to these, and they feared; for it was enough only to test the wrath.
- [2 Maccabees 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/8?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/4-maccabees/7?v=25) — for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the…