{"def":{"short":"a putting to proof (by experiment (of good), experience (of evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication, adversity","long":["an experiment, attempt, trial, proving",["trial, proving: the trial made of you by my bodily condition, since condition served as to test the love of the Galatians toward Paul (Galatians 4:14)","the trial of man's fidelity, integrity, virtue, constancy",["an enticement to sin, temptation, whether arising from the desires or from the outward circumstances","an internal temptation to sin",["of the temptation by which the devil sought to divert Jesus the Messiah from his divine errand"],"of the condition of things, or a mental state, by which we are enticed to sin, or to a lapse from the faith and holiness","adversity, affliction, trouble: sent by God and serving to test or prove one's character, faith, holiness"],"temptation (i.e., trial) of God by men",["rebellion against God, by which his power and justice are, as it were, put to the proof and challenged to show themselves"]]]},"deriv":"from G3985","pronun":{"ipa":"pi.rɑˈsmos","ipa_mod":"pi.rɑˈsmows","sbl":"peirasmos","dic":"pee-ra-SMOSE","dic_mod":"pee-ra-SMOSE"},"see":["G3985"]}