Strong G39862 sensesπειρασμός

temptation/testing: testing · temptation/testing: temptation

Transliteration
peirasmos
Pronunciation
pi-ras-mos'

The 2 senses of Strong G3986

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong G3986 appears in 20 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. temptation/testing: testingG3986H11 verses · 8 books
  2. temptation/testing: temptationG3986G9 verses · 5 books

General definition

From G3985; a putting to proof (by experiment [of good] experience [of evil] solicitation discipline or provocation); by implication adversity: - temptation X try.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • temptation19
  • try1

First verses

  1. Matthew 6:13
    And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
  2. Matthew 26:41
    Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  3. Mark 14:38
    Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
  4. Luke 4:13
    And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
  5. Luke 8:13
    They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
  6. Luke 11:4
    And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.
  7. Luke 22:28
    Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
  8. Luke 22:40
    And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
  9. Luke 22:46
    And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.
  10. Acts 20:19
    Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
  11. 1 Corinthians 10:13
    There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
  12. Galatians 4:14
    And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
  13. 1 Timothy 6:9
    But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
  14. Hebrews 3:8
    Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  15. James 1:2
    My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
  16. James 1:12
    Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
  17. 1 Peter 1:6
    Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
  18. 1 Peter 4:12
    Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
  19. 2 Peter 2:9
    The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
  20. Revelation 3:10
    Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.