πειρασμός
temptation
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 11 times (52%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (14%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 3 times (14%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 2 times (10%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (5%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 21 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3986 appears — 20 distinct verses across 12 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 6:13 πειρασμόν n acc sg masc Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.'
- Matthew 26:41 πειρασμόν n acc sg masc Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Mark 1 verse
Luke 6 verses
- Luke 4:13 πειρασμὸν n acc sg masc When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
- Luke 8:13 πειρασμοῦ n gen sg masc Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
- Luke 11:4 πειρασμόν n acc sg masc Forgive us our sins, For we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.'"
- Luke 22:28 πειρασμοῖς n dat pl masc But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
- Luke 22:40 πειρασμόν n acc sg masc When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you don't enter into temptation."
- Luke 22:46 πειρασμόν n acc sg masc and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
James 2 verses
1 Peter 2 verses
- 1 Peter 1:6 πειρασμοῖς n dat pl masc Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
- 1 Peter 4:12 πειρασμὸν n acc sg masc Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
2 Peter 1 verse
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
πειρασμος — transliterated peirasmós — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “temptation.” Debuting at Matthew 6:13, it then recurs through the corpus. With 20 verses in 12 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (30% of all occurrences). Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3986 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #607
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 607 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 45%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 35%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 15%
- Johannine 1 verse · 5%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 5%
- Revelation 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Temptation 15×, Temptations 5×
- American Standard Version: Temptation 14×, Temptations 2×, Trial 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Temptation 9×, Trials 5×, Testing 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Temptation 10×, Trials 4×, Testing 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3986 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3986 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3986 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3986 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an experiment, attempt, trial, proving
Word origin
Derived from πειραζω (peirázō) (G3985) — to test.
From G3985 ; a putting to proof (by experiment [of good] experience [of evil] solicitation discipline or provocation); by implication adversity : - temptation X try.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G3986 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πειρασμόν peirasmón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:13 | 7 |
| πειρασμὸν peirasmòn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 4:13 | 4 |
| πειρασμοῖς peirasmoîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 22:28 | 3 |
| πειρασμοῦ peirasmoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 8:13 | 3 |
| πειρασμῶν peirasmō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Acts 20:19 | 2 |
| πειρασμὸς peirasmòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 10:13 | 1 |
| πειρασμῷ peirasmō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 10:13 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πειρασμος appears 7 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 3 books.
- 7
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 17:7 πειρασμός
- Deuteronomy 4:34 πειρασμός
- Psalms 94:8 πειρασμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3986) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 17:7 πειρασμός He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
- Deuteronomy 4:34 πειρασμός Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 6:16 πειρασμός You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
- Deuteronomy 7:19 πειρασμός the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Deuteronomy 9:22 πειρασμός At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.
- Deuteronomy 29:2 πειρασμός Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
- Psalms 94:8 πειρασμός Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3986) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
