peirasmos · testing, temptation

What it means

peirasmos (πειρασμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “testing, temptation”.

Test, trial; also temptation, the test that pushes one to fall.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A hardship that tries faith.
2. Something that pushes you to sin.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• temptation ×10
• trial ×5
• trials ×4
• testing ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×6
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Galatians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×2
• 1 Peter×2
• 2 Peter×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 6:13

  and do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.’

• Matthew 26:41

  Keep watch and pray, so that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh weak.”

• Mark 14:38

  Keep watch and pray, so that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh weak.”

• Luke 4:13

  And when the devil had finished every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.

• Luke 8:13

  And those on the rock are the ones who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root; they believe for a while, and in a time of testing fall away.

• Luke 11:4

  and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us; and do not bring us into temptation.”

• Luke 22:28

  And you are those who have remained with me in my trials;

• Luke 22:40

  And when he arrived at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

• Luke 22:46

  And he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

• Acts 20:19

  serving the Lord as a slave with all humility and tears and trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

• 1 Corinthians 10:13

  No temptation has seized you except a human one; and God is faithful, who will not let you be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also provide the way out, so as to be able to endure it.

• Galatians 4:14

  and what in my flesh was a trial to you you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, as the Messiah Jesus.

• 1 Timothy 6:9

  But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

• Hebrews 3:8

  do not harden your hearts as in the provocation, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

• James 1:2

  Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,

• James 1:12

  Happy is the man who endures trial, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which he promised to those who love him.

• 1 Peter 1:6

  In this you rejoice greatly, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,

• 1 Peter 4:12

  Beloved, do not be surprised at the fire among you, which comes upon you for a trial, as though something strange were happening to you,

• 2 Peter 2:9

  the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

• Revelation 3:10

  Because you have kept the word of my endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world to test those who live on the earth.

And 1 more times.