noun · feminine
dokimasias
Strong’sG1381
a testing, scrutiny
stem dokimasi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** δοκιμασία, -ας, ἡ
(< δοκιμάζω), [in LXX: Si 6:21 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1381 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddok-im-ad'-zo
to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve
Fromfrom G1384;
King Jamesallow, discern, examine, X like, (ap-)prove, try.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(δόκιμος) assay, test, πορφύραν καὶ χρυσόν Refs 5th c.BC+:—middle, prove for oneself, choose, χώραν Refs 5th c.BC+:— passive, ἐπειδὰν τὸ ἔργον.. δοκιμασθῇ Refs
2 of persons, δ. αὐτούς put them to the test, make trial of them, Refs 5th c.BC+; also of Apis-bulls, Refs 5th c.BC+
II approve, sanction, μετὰ δεδοκιμασμένου [λόγου] μὴ ξυνέπεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+infinitive, ἐκπονεῖν ἐδοκίμαζε he approved of their working, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 as a political term,
II.2.a approve after scrutiny as fit for an office, Refs 5th c.BC+:—passive, to be approved as fit, Refs 5th c.BC+; μου δοκιμαζομένου when I was undergoing a scrutiny, Refs 4th c.BC+; δεδοκιμασμένος [ἰατρός] Refs 2nd c.AD+: metaphorically, ὃν ὁ Ἥφαιστος ἐδοκίμασεν Refs 2nd c.BC+; ὑπὲρ τοῦ στεφανωθῆναι δοκιμάζομαι Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2.b pass as fit to serve, ἱππεύειν δεδοκιμασμένος Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2.c examine and admit boys to the class of ἔφηβοι or ἔφηβοι to the rights of manhood, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2.d test an orator's right to speak Refs
II.3 with infinitive, think fit to do, Refs 1st c.AD+: with negative, refuse to do, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dokimasias | dokimasiais |
| object accusative | dokimasian | dokimasiain |
| direct address vocative | dokimasiar | dokimasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dokimasiau | dokimasiaiu |
| to, for dative | dokimasia1×δοκιμασίᾳ | dokimasiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dokimasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
dokimasia“tried”to, fordative singular1×
Hebrews 3:9hou peirazala tois patrois vu en dokimasia kai horala teim ergeim muwhere your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw …