Strong's #3986: peirasmos (pronounced pi-ras-mos')

from 3985; a putting to proof (by experiment (of good), experience (of evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication, adversity:--temptation, X try.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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peirasmos

1) an experiment, attempt, trial, proving

1a) trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Galatians 4:14)

1b) the trial of man' s fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy

1b1) an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances

1b2) an internal temptation to sin

1b2a) of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand

1b3) 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

1b4) adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or Proverbs one' s character, faith, holiness

1c) temptation (i.e. trial) of God by men

1c1) rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G3985

Citing in TDNT: 6:23, 822

Usage:

This word is used 21 times:

 

Matthew 6:13: "us not into temptation, but deliver us from"
Matthew 26:41: "ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing,"
Mark 14:38: "lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready,"
Luke 4:13: "devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season."
Luke 8:13: "and in time of temptation fall away."
Luke 11:4: "us not into temptation; but deliver us from"
Luke 22:28: "me in my temptations."
Luke 22:40: "that ye enter not into temptation."
Luke 22:46: "lest ye enter into temptation."
Acts 20:19: "with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the"
1 Corinthians 10:13: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God"
1 Corinthians 10:13: "but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye"
Galatians 4:14: "And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised"
1 Timothy 6:9: "be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many"
Hebrews 3:8: "in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"
James 1:2: "when ye fall into divers temptations;"
James 1:12: "is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive"
1 Peter 1:6: "need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:"
1 Peter 4:12: "concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,"
2 Peter 2:9: "how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto"
Revelation 3:10: "from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all"