- πίστις
- trust
- πίστις
- faith, belief, trust
- faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.
- πίστις
- persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself
Derivation: from G3982;KJV Usage: assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.
G3982
- πίστις
- faith/trust
- G:N-F
- πίστις, -εως, ἡ
(< πείθω), [in LXX chiefly for אֱמוּנָה ;]
__1. in active sense, faith, belief, trust, confidence, in NT always of religious faith in God or Christ or spiritual things:; with genitive obj.,Refs
Mat.8:10, Luk.5:20, Act.14:9, Rom.1:8, 1Co.2:5, 2Co.1:24, 1Ti.1:5, al.; with prep., ἐν,Refs
Mrk.11:22, Act.3:16, Rom.3:22, Gal.2:16, Eph.3:12, Jas.2:1, al.; εἰς,Refs
Rom.3:25, Gal.3:26, Eph.1:15, Col.1:24, 1Ti.1:14 3:13, 2Ti.1:13 3:15, 2Pe.1:1; πρός,Refs
Act.20:21 24:24 26:18, Col.2:5, 1Pe.1:21; ἐπί, with accusative Heb.6:1; ἐν τῇ π. στήκειν (εἶναι, μένειν),Refs
1Th.1:8, Phm 5; ὑπακοὴ τῆς π.,Refs
1Co.16:13, 1Co.13:5, 1Ti.2:15; ὁ ἐκ π.,Refs
Rom.1:5 16:26; διὰ (τῆς) π., Rom.3:30,Refs
Rom.3:26 4:16, Gal.3:12, Php.3:9. By meton., objectively, that which is the object or content of belief, the faith:Refs
Gal.2:16, and perh. alsoRefs
Act.6:7 14:22, Gal.1:23 3:23 6:10, Php.1:26, 27 Ju 3, 20and 16:26 (see supr.),Refs
Act.13:8 16:5, Rom.1:5(Lft., Notes, 125),Refs
1Co.16:13, Col.1:23, 2Th.3:26:10,Refs
1Ti.1:19 3:9 4:1, 6 5:8Tit.1:4, 13 3:15, 1Pe.5:9.Refs
12, 2Ti.3:8 4:7
__2. In passive sense,
__(a) fidelity, faithfulness:; ἡ π. τοῦ θεοῦ, Rom.3:3;Refs
Mat.23:23, Gal.5:22
__(b) objectively, plighted faith, a pledge of fidelity: 1Ti.5:12. (On the various shades of meaning in which the word is used in NT, see esp. ICC on Rom.1:17, pp. 31ff.; Lft., Ga., 154ff.; Stevens, Th. NT, 422, 515ff.; DB, i, 830ff.; Cremer, see word)
(AS)
1) conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the NT of a conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, generally with the included idea of trust and holy fervour born of faith and joined with it
1a) relating to God
1a1) the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ
1b) relating to Christ
1b1) a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God
1c) the religious beliefs of Christians
1d) belief with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in the same
2) fidelity, faithfulness
2a) the character of one who can be relied on
1a) relating to God
1a1) the conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ
1b) relating to Christ
1b1) a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the kingdom of God
1c) the religious beliefs of Christians
1d) belief with the predominate idea of trust (or confidence) whether in God or in Christ, springing from faith in the same
2) fidelity, faithfulness
2a) the character of one who can be relied on
πίστις
pistis
pis'-tis
From G3982; persuasion, that is, credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly constancy in such profession; by extension the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself
KJV Usage: assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.