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Koine Greek wordlink #88976

SR GNT Acts 9:26 ἐπείραζεν (epeirazen) ‘and in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) he was attempting to_be_being joined_together to the apprentices/followers’ Strongs=39850 Lemma=peirazō
Word role=verb mood=indicative tense=imperfect voice=active person=3rd number=singular
Year=35 AD Event=Saul_proclaims_Jesus TimeSeries=Saul_proclaims_Jesus Refers to Word #88929

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

The word form ‘ἐπείραζεν’ (V-IIA3··S) is always and only glossed as ‘he was 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 ἐπείραζεν (V-IIA3··S) with a gloss related to ‘attempting’

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 16:7 ἐπείραζον (epeirazon) V-IIA3··P ‘and down to Musia they were attempting into Bithunia to_be gone’ SR GNT Acts 16:7 word 8

OET-LV: 7 and having _come down the to _Musia, they _were _attempting to _be _gone into the Bithunia, and the spirit of_Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) not allowed them, (ACT_16:7)

OET-RV: 7 When they got to Mysia, they planned to go on into Bithynia, but Yeshua’s spirit didn’t let them, (ACT 16:7)

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