πειρασμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πειρᾰ́ζω (peirắzō, “to prove”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /peː.raz.mós/ → /pi.razˈmos/ → /pi.razˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /peː.raz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pi.razˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pi.razˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pi.razˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pi.razˈmos/

Noun

πειρᾰσμός • (peirăsmós) m (genitive πειρᾰσμοῦ); second declension

1. trial, proof
2. temptation
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Deuteronomy 4.34
   • New Testament, First Epistle of Peter 4:12
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, The Preface of Materia Medica 5
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 6:13
   • Cyranus, Collected Works 40

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πειρᾰσμός; τοῦ πειρᾰσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πειρᾰσμός ho peirăsmós	τὼ πειρᾰσμώ tṑ peirăsmṓ	οἱ πειρᾰσμοί hoi peirăsmoí
Genitive	τοῦ πειρᾰσμοῦ toû peirăsmoû	τοῖν πειρᾰσμοῖν toîn peirăsmoîn	τῶν πειρᾰσμῶν tôn peirăsmôn
Dative	τῷ πειρᾰσμῷ tôi peirăsmôi	τοῖν πειρᾰσμοῖν toîn peirăsmoîn	τοῖς πειρᾰσμοῖς toîs peirăsmoîs
Accusative	τὸν πειρᾰσμόν tòn peirăsmón	τὼ πειρᾰσμώ tṑ peirăsmṓ	τοὺς πειρᾰσμούς toùs peirăsmoús
Vocative	πειρᾰσμέ peirăsmé	πειρᾰσμώ peirăsmṓ	πειρᾰσμοί peirăsmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πειρασμός m (peirasmós)

Further reading

• “πειρασμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πειρασμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πειρασμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3986 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πειρασμός (peirasmós).

Noun

πειρασμός • (peirasmós) m (plural πειρασμοί)

1. temptation

Declension

Declension of πειρασμός

	singular	plural
nominative	πειρασμός (peirasmós)	πειρασμοί (peirasmoí)
genitive	πειρασμού (peirasmoú)	πειρασμών (peirasmón)
accusative	πειρασμό (peirasmó)	πειρασμούς (peirasmoús)
vocative	πειρασμέ (peirasmé)	πειρασμοί (peirasmoí)