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ἐκπειρ-άομαι

ekpeiraomai

make trial of, prove, tempt

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Where it lives

Deuteronomium 4 · 1.79/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἐκπειρ-άομαι · ekpeir-aomai — LSJ

make trial of, prove, tempt, art, tempting

make trial of, prove, tempt, c. gen. pers., Hdt. 3.135 : c. inf., ἐκπειρᾷ λέγειν; art thou tempting me to speak? S. OT 360 codd. : folld. by a relat., κἀξεπειράθην..οἷον στέρεσθαι γίγνεται E. Supp. 1089; ἐ. εἴτε.. Pl. Ep. 362e.

2 inquire, ask of another

inquire, ask of another, τί τινος Ar. Eq. 1234.—Late in Act., Hld. 7.19.

In the wild

κἀξεπειράθην · kaxepeirathēn Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 633)
ἐκπειρῷτο · ekpeirōito Herodotus, Histories 3.135.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3914)
ἐκπειράσεις · ekpeiraseis New Testament, Luke 4.12 (DIORISIS sentence 148)
ἐκπειράσεις · ekpeiraseis New Testament, Matthew 4.6 (DIORISIS sentence 64)
ἐξεπειρώμην · exepeirōmēn Plato, Epistles 362
ἐκπειράσεις · ekpeiraseis Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 6

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