πειρασμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πειρᾰ́ζω (peirázō, “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 • (peirasmós) 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
   • Cyranus, Collected Works 40

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πειρᾰσμός; τοῦ πειρᾰσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πειρᾰσμός ho peirasmós	τὼ πειρᾰσμώ tṑ peirasmṓ	οἱ πειρᾰσμοί hoi peirasmoí
Genitive	τοῦ πειρᾰσμοῦ toû peirasmoû	τοῖν πειρᾰσμοῖν toîn peirasmoîn	τῶν πειρᾰσμῶν tôn peirasmôn
Dative	τῷ πειρᾰσμῷ tôi peirasmôi	τοῖν πειρᾰσμοῖν toîn peirasmoîn	τοῖς πειρᾰσμοῖς toîs peirasmoîs
Accusative	τὸν πειρᾰσμόν tòn peirasmón	τὼ πειρᾰσμώ tṑ peirasmṓ	τοὺς πειρᾰσμούς toùs peirasmoús
Vocative	πειρᾰσμέ peirasmé	πειρᾰσμώ peirasmṓ	πειρᾰσμοί peirasmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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