Words the Bible translates as try
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 6 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- zēteōζητέωto seek: to go after something with effort, whether searching for it, striving to get it, or insisting on having it.
- peirazōπειράζωto try: to make an attempt at something, to endeavor to do it
+1 more meaning
- to test: to put a person, claim, or one's own faith to the proof to find out what it really is
- 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
- baḥanבָּחַןto examine something closely to find out whether it is genuine, the way an assayer tests metal
- peiraōπειράωto trynot studied yet
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