G3984
πεῖρα
test
πεῖρα, -ας, ἡ (πειράω), [in LXX: Deu.28:56 (π. λαμβάνειν, נָסָה pi.) Deu.33:8 (מַסָּה), Wis.18:20, 25, 2Ma.8:9, 4Ma.8:1 * ;] trial, experiment; π. λαμβάνειν, to make trial, have experience of: Heb.11:29, 36 (for exx., see Field, Notes, 232 f.).† (AS)
The KJV translates G3984 in the following manner:
assaying (2x), trial (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
πεῖρα — peîra
πεῖρα, πειρας, ἡ (πειράω), from Aeschylus down, a trial, experiment, attempt: πεῖραν λαμβάνειν τίνος, equivalent to to attempt a thing, to make trial of a thing or a person (a phrase common in secular authors; cf. Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 18; Cyril 3, 3, 38; see other examples in Sturz, Lex. Xenoph. iii., p. 488; Plato, Protag., p. 342 a.; Gorgias, p. 448 a.; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 6, 5; Aelian v. h. 12, 22; often in Polybius, cf. Schweighäuser, Lex. Polybius, p. 460; the Sept. Deu 28:56; (other examples in Bleek on Hebrews, the passage cited; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 146)), θαλάσσης, to try whether the sea can be crossed dry-shod like the land, Heb 11:29; to have trial of a thing, i. e. to experience, learn to know by experience, μαστίγων, Heb 11:36 (often in Polybius; τῆς προνοίας, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 1).
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