Open English Translation (OET)

Koine Greek wordlink #94823

SR GNT Acts 16:7 ἐπείραζον (epeirazon) ‘and down to Musia they were attempting into Bithunia to_be gone’ Strongs=39850 Lemma=peirazō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=3rd number=plural
Year=53 AD Event=Mission_to_Phrygia,_Galatia_and_Asia TimeSeries="Mission_to_Phrygia,_Galatia_and_Asia",Second_Missionary_Journey Refers to Word #94709 Refers to Word #94634 Person=Silas Refers to Word #94681

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Only use of identical word form ἐπείραζον (V-IIA3··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπείραζον’ (V-IIA3··P) is always and only glossed as ‘they were attempting’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘peirazō’ have 24 different glosses: ‘be testing’, ‘being tempted’, ‘being tested’, ‘having_been tempted’, ‘is tempting’, ‘is_being tempted’, ‘may_be tempt’, ‘may_be tempted’, ‘to test’, ‘to_be tempted’, ‘I am_being tempted’, ‘he was attempting’, ‘they were attempting’, ‘they were tempted’, ‘you tested’, ‘you_all are testing’, ‘you_all may_be tested’, ‘attempted’, ‘tempted’, ‘tempting’, ‘tempting him’, ‘tested him’, ‘tested me’, ‘testing’.

Greek words (3) other than ἐπείραζον (V-IIA3··P) with a gloss related to ‘attempting’

ACTs 9:26 ἐπείραζεν (epeirazen) V-IIA3··S ‘and in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) he was attempting to_be_being joined_together to the apprentices/followers’ SR GNT Acts 9:26 word 9

OET-LV: 26 And having _arrived in Hierousalaʸm, he _was _attempting to _be _being _joined _together to _the apprentices/followers. But all were _fearing him, not believing that he _is an_apprentice/follower. (ACT_9:26)

OET-RV: 26 When he got back to Yerushalem, Saul attempted to join in with the believers there but they were all scared of him, not believing that he was a true follower of Yeshua. (ACT 9:26)

ACTs 9:29 ἐπεχείρουν (epeⱪeiroun) V-IIA3··P Lemma=epiχeireō ‘Hellaʸnistaʸs they but were attempting to kill him’ SR GNT Acts 9:29 word 12

OET-LV: 29 He _was_ both _speaking and was _debating with the Hellaʸnistaʸs, but they were _attempting to _kill him. (ACT_9:29)

OET-RV: 29 He also talked and debated with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they wanted to kill him, (ACT 9:29)

ACTs 26:21 ἐπειρῶντο (epeirōnto) V-IIM3··P Lemma=peiraō ‘in the temple were attempting to hand_over me’ SR GNT Acts 26:21 word 13

OET-LV: 21 On _account these things, the_Youdaiōns having _captured me in the temple, were _attempting to _hand _over me. (ACT_26:21)

OET-RV: 21 It was because of these things that the Jews grabbed me in the temple and tried to do me in. (ACT 26:21)

Key: V=verb