STRONGS G3984:
πεῖρα,
πειρας,
ἡ (
πειράω), from
Aeschylus down,
a trial, experiment, attempt:
πεῖραν λαμβάνειν τίνος, equivalent to
to attempt a thing, to make trial of a thing or a person (a phrase common in secular authors; cf.
Xenophon, mem. 1, 4, 18; Cyril 3, 3, 38; see other examples in Sturz, Lex. Xenoph. iii., p. 488;
Plato, Protag., p. 342 a.; Gorgias, p. 448 a.;
Josephus, Antiquities 8, 6, 5;
Aelian v. h. 12, 22; often in
Polybius, cf. Schweighäuser, Lex.
Polybius, p. 460; the
Sept. Deuteronomy 28:56; (other examples in Bleek on Hebrews, the passage cited; Field, Otium Norv. pars iii., p. 146)),
θαλάσσης, to try whether the sea can be crossed dry-shod like the land,
Hebrews 11:29;
to have trial of a thing, i. e.
to experience, learn to know by experience, μαστίγων,
Hebrews 11:36 (often in
Polybius;
τῆς προνοίας,
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 5, 1).
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