Words the Bible translates as test
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- peirazōπειράζωto test: to put a person, claim, or one's own faith to the proof to find out what it really is
+1 more meaning
- to try: to make an attempt at something, to endeavor to do it
- dokimazōδοκιμάζωto put something to the test to find out whether it is genuine, and so to prove and approve it
- nasahנָסָהto put to the test: to set up a trial that brings out what a person, a thing, or even God will actually do
- tsaraphצָרַףto refine metal by fire: to melt down silver or gold and burn out its impurities, and by extension to test and prove something until only what is pure remains
- baḥanבָּחַןto examine something closely to find out whether it is genuine, the way an assayer tests metal
- ekpeirazōἐκπειράζωto test/temptnot studied yet
- dokimēδοκιμήgenuineness proved by testing: the ordeal that proves, the tried quality it produces, or the proof it yields
- peiraπεῖραtestnot studied yet
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