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πειράζω , (πεῖρα) used by early authors only in pres. and impf., the other tenses being supplied by πειράω, -άομαι : Cret. fut.
A.“πειράξω” GDI5181 : aor. 1 imper. “πείρα^σον” AP11.183 (Lucill.): aor. Pass. “ἐπειράσθην” LXXWi. 11.9, Ev.Matt.4.1 : pf. part. “πεπειρασμένος” Ep.Hebr. 4.15 :—make proof or trial of, c. gen., Od. 16.319.23.114 : abs., 9.281.
2. c. inf., attempt to do, Plb. 2.6.9, LXX Jd.6.39, Act.Ap. 16.7, 24.6 ; π. τι attempt a thing, “ἄλλος ἄλλην ἐπ᾽ ἐμὲ πειράζει τέχνην” Luc. Trag. 149, cf. S.E. M. 1.40 ; “τόδε τόξον” make trial of, Anacreont. 31.24 : abs., make an attempt, Plb. Fr. 195.
3. Pass., ἤθη . . ἐν χρόνῳ πειράζεται are tried, proved, Men. Mon. 573 ; to be experienced, Phld. Sign. 32.
II. c. acc. pers., try, tempt a person, put him to the test, LXX Ge.22.1, al. ; ἑαυτοὺς πειράζετε, εἰ . . 2 Ep.Cor.13.5, al.; τί πειράζετε τὸν Κύριον ; LXX Ex. 17.2, cf. Act.Ap. 15.10, 1 Ep.Cor. 10.9, al.
2. in bad sense, seek to seduce, tempt, “Ἀθηναίην” A.R. 3.10 : abs., ὁ πειράζων the Tempter, 1 Ep.Thess. 3.5, etc. :—Pass., to be sorely tried, “πειραζομένη βασανίζομαι” PLit.Lond. 52.5 ; “στομακάκκῃ” Str. 16.4.24 ; to be attacked, “ὑποχύσει” Alex.Aphr. Pr.2.54 ; “ἐπιληψίᾳ” Cyran.47 ; to be tempted to sin, Ev.Matt. 4.1, al.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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