Meaning
Experience (without), Experiment <1,,552, apeiros>
"without experience" (a, negative, peira, "a trial, experiment"), is used in Heb 5:13, RV, "without experience," AV, "unskillful," with reference to "the word of righteousness." In the Sept., Num 14:23, of youths; Jer 2:6, of a land, "untried;" Zec 11:15, of a shepherd.
<2,,1382, dokime>
means (a) "the process of proving;" it is rendered "experiment" in 2Co 9:13, AV, RV, "the proving (of you);" in 2Co 8:2, AV, "trial," RV, "proof;" (b) "the effect of proving, approval, approvedness," RV, "probation," Rom 5:4 (twice), for AV, "experience;" AV and RV, "proof" in 2Co 2:9, 2Co 13:3, Phi 2:22. See EXPERIENCE, PROOF. Cp. dokimos, "approved," dokimazo, "to prove, approve;" see APPROVE.
