Words the Bible translates as testing
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- peirasmosπειρασμόςa testing or trial: pressure that reveals whether a person will stay faithful, whether as hardship that proves faith or as enticement that erodes it
- dokimionδοκίμιονtestingnot studied yet
- massahמַסָּהa testing, a trial: an ordeal that forces out into the open what someone or something is really made of
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- despair: hope draining away until a person has no courage left
- boḥanבֹּחַןtestingnot studied yet
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