Peira means “assaying” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3984 — man (“vessel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3984 πεῖρα (peira) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. peira (pei`-rah) n. 1. a trial, i.e. attempt, experience [from the base of G4008 (through the idea of piercing)] It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include through and trial. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
peira (pei`-rah) n. 1. a trial, i.e. attempt, experience [from the base of G4008 (through the idea of piercing)] KJV: assaying, trial Root(s): G4008
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3984. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: 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 English word each shown verse actually uses to render peira, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3984 (πεῖρα) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his manifestations, And his truth to the holy man, Whom they tempted in the temptation; They reviled him at the water of strife.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, And there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: But the wrath endured not long.
Unto these the destroyer gave place, and they were afraid of them: For it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3984.
And she that is tender and delicate among you, whose foot has not assayed to go upon the earth for delicacy and tenderness, shall look with an evil eye on her husband in her bosom, and her son and her daughter,
And to Levi he said, Give to Levi his manifestations, And his truth to the holy man, Whom they tempted in the temptation; They reviled him at the water of strife.
By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
Yea, the tasting of death touched the righteous also, And there was a destruction of the multitude in the wilderness: But the wrath endured not long.
Unto these the destroyer gave place, and they were afraid of them: For it was enough that they only tasted of the wrath.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3984, grouped by book.
Peira (Strong's G3984) is a Greek word most simply glossed "assaying". peira (pei`-rah) n. 1. a trial, i.e. attempt, experience [from the base of G4008 (through the idea of piercing)]
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G3984 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3984 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as through and trial. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3984, with linked reader references where each row is available.