1. (n.) Trial, as a test or experiment.

2. (n.) The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

3. (n.) An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

EXPERIENCE

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This word is employed 3 times. In Genesis 30:27 the King James Version, Laban says, to Jacob, "I have learned by experience (the Revised Version (British and American) "divined") that Yahweh hath blessed me for thy sake." Here it translates the Hebrew nachash, "to observe diligently," as when one examines the entrails of a bird or animal for the purpose of divination. In Ecclesiastes 1:16, the writer says, "I have gotten me great wisdom.; my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." Here the Hebrew (ra'ah) means "hath seen abundantly," and the idea seems to be that of a wide outlook combined with actual trial of the things discovered or known.

In Romans 5:4 the King James Version, the Greek word dokime (the American Standard Revised Version more correctly "approvedness"), means the proof or testing of a thing. We rejoice in tribulation because it works out or produces patience, while the latter develops an experience of God, i.e. it brings out as a proved fact His power and love toward us in our preservation in and deliverance from trial.

Thus it is seen the Bible use of the word is not different from the ordinary, which means "the sum of practical wisdom taught by the events and observations of life," or, to go a little farther, the personal and practical acquaintance with what is so taught. Hebrews 5:13 gives a good practical example. the King James Version says, "Every one that useth milk is unskillful (apeiros) in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe," while the Revised Version (British and American) renders "unskilful" by "without experience of." The thought is that he who fails to search out the deep things of the word of God is so lacking in the exercise of his spiritual senses as to be unable really to know truth from error.

James M. Gray

552. apeiros -- without experience of
... without experience of. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: apeiros Phonetic
Spelling: (ap'-i-ros) Short Definition: inexperienced, unskillful Definition ...
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3708. horao -- to see, perceive, attend to
... perceive, attend to. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: horao Phonetic Spelling:
(hor-ah'-o) Short Definition: I see, look upon, experience Definition: I see ...
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2210. zemioo -- to damage, suffer loss
... of the penalty, even when the verb is passive. 2210 (from 2209 , "loss") -- to cause
or experience (), especially carrying a penalty (significant detriment). ...
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2334. theoreo -- to look at, gaze
... to look at, gaze. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: theoreo Phonetic Spelling:
(theh-o-reh'-o) Short Definition: I behold, look at, experience Definition: I ...
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1089. geuomai -- to taste, eat
... to taste, eat. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: geuomai Phonetic Spelling:
(ghyoo'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I taste, experience Definition: (a) I taste ...
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1382. dokime -- (the process or result of) trial, proving ...
... experience, proof, trial. From the same as dokimos; test (abstractly or concretely);
by implication, trustiness -- experience(-riment), proof, trial. ...
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3805. pathetos -- one who has suffered or is subject to suffering
... Cognate: 3805 (an adjective, derived from 3958, "to experience strong feeling, such
as suffering") -- properly, "passable, ie endued with the , " (J. Thayer). ...
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2552. kakopatheia -- affliction
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kakopatheia Phonetic Spelling:
(kak-op-ath'-i-ah) Short Definition: suffering Definition: experience of evil ...
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3958. pascho -- to suffer, to be acted on
... Spelling: (pas'-kho) Short Definition: I am acted upon, suffer Definition: I am
acted upon in a certain way, either good or bad; I experience ill treatment ...
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619. apolausis -- enjoyment
... enjoyment. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apolausis Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-ol'-ow-sis) Short Definition: the faculty or experience of enjoyment ...
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5172. nachash -- to practice divination, observe signs
... certainly, divine, enchanter, use enchantment, learn by experience, diligently
observe. A primitive root; properly, to hiss, ie Whisper ...
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7200. raah -- to see
... 1), consider (13), considered (1), display (1), displayed (1), distinguish (1),
encountered (1), enjoy (1), enjoy* (3), examined (1), experience (1), exposed (1 ...
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The Anvil of Experience.
... The Jordan: The Decisive Start The Anvil of Experience. Experience is going
through a thing yourself, and having it go through you. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks about jesus/the anvil of experience.htm

A Personal Experience.
... A Personal Experience. ... O God, is this all of thy kingdom upon the earth? I would
question the older members of our congregation about their experience. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /a personal experience.htm

Experience.
... THE SOUL. XXIV. EXPERIENCE. (IN IMITATION OF A FAVOURITE WELSH MEASURE.)
2,8,8,8,8,8. Sweet, sweet,. It is with thine, my God, to meet,. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/morris/favourite welsh hymns/xxiv experience.htm

Whether Experience is a Cause of Hope?
... OF THE IRASCIBLE PASSIONS, AND FIRST, OF HOPE AND DESPAIR (EIGHT ARTICLES)
Whether experience is a cause of hope? Objection 1: It ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether experience is a cause.htm

Experience the Value of Testimony.
... EXPERIENCE THE VALUE OF TESTIMONY. It has pleased God ... and obedience. For years
my religious experience was most unsatisfactory. I was ...
/.../rees/the heart-cry of jesus/experience the value of testimony.htm

Experience, Resolve, and Hope
... VOLUME II: PSALMS LI to CXLV EXPERIENCE, RESOLVE, AND HOPE. 'Thou hast delivered ...
the living.'. Our experience yields fuel for our faith. We ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/experience resolve and hope.htm

May the Nineteenth the Rock of Experience
... MAY The Nineteenth THE ROCK OF EXPERIENCE. JOHN ix.26-41. The Lord ... too!
First, he stood upon his own inalienable experience. "One ...
/.../my daily meditation for the circling year/may the nineteenth the rock.htm

Christian Experience.
... THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHER CHAPTER XI. CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. ... This I promised God
to do at any cost, and asked him to give me a Bible experience. ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter xi christian experience.htm

Personal Experience
... CHAPTER XIII Personal Experience. In conclusion I desire to add my humble testimony
of a personal experience of the glorious work of entire sanctification. ...
/.../byers/sanctification/chapter xiii personal experience.htm

Travel. A Personal Experience.
... IX. TRAVEL. A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. We have set in order ... limited, imperfect
journey. AN EYE-OPEN AND EAR-OPEN EXPERIENCE. One is ...
/.../ix travel a personal experience.htm

Experience (28 Occurrences)
... inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained
by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war ...
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Christianity
... Contrasted Estimates of our Lord's Person (1) The Non-Believing Estimate-not Truly
Historical (2) The Believing Estimate-Relation to Experience 6. Christianity ...
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Taste (46 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience;
to undergo. ... 16. (n.) Essay; trial; experience; experiment. 17. ...
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Expert (59 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of
operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice ...
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Prove (83 Occurrences)
... to prove a will. 4. (vt) To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know
by trial; to experience; to suffer. 5. (vt) To test, evince ...
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Miracle (15 Occurrences)
... They are credible just as any facts of history well authenticated are credible.
Miracles, it is said, are contrary to experience. ...
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Adoption (5 Occurrences)
... THE CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE 1. In Relation to Justification 2. In Relation to
Sanctification 3. In Relation to Regeneration IV. ... III. The Christian Experience. ...
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Conversion (1 Occurrence)
... " `To be converted,' `to be regenerated,' `to receive grace,' `to experience religion,'
`to gain an assurance,' are so many phrases which denote the process ...
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Johannine
... jo-han'-in,-in: I. THE ANTECEDENTS 1. Personality of Writer 2. Earlier New Testament
Writings 3. Christian Experience and Teaching of History 4. Widening ...
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Experienced (23 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 11:2 And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not
said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord ...
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