πίστις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
πίστις
πίστεως
Structure:
πιστι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- trust in others, faith
- belief in a higher power, faith
- the state of being persuaded of something: belief, confidence, assurance
- trust in a commercial sense: credit
- faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, fidelity
- that which gives assurance: treaty, oath, guarantee
- means of persuasion: argument, proof
- that which is entrusted
Declension
Third declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- καὶ οὐκ ἐξελογίζοντο τοὺσ ἄνδρασ, οἷσ ἐδίδουν τὸ ἀργύριον ἐπὶ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν δοῦναι τοῖσ ποιοῦσι τὰ ἔργα, ὅτι ἐν πίστει αὐτῶν ποιοῦσιν. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 12:16)
- πλὴν οὐκ ἐξελογίζοντο αὐτοὺσ τὸ ἀργύριον τὸ διδόμενον αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι ἐν πίστει αὐτοὶ ποιοῦσι. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 22:7)
- πάντεσ οἱ ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐπὶ τῆσ πύλησ ἐν ταῖσ πύλαισ διακόσιοι καὶ δεκαδύο. οὗτοι ἐν ταῖσ αὐλαῖσ αὐτῶν, ὁ καταλοχισμὸσ αὐτῶν. τούτουσ ἔστησε Δαυὶδ καὶ Σαμουὴλ ὁ βλέπων τῇ πίστει αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 9:22)
- ὅτι ἐν πίστει εἰσὶ τέσσαρεσ δυνατοὶ τῶν πυλῶν. καὶ οἱ Λευῖται ἦσαν ἐπὶ τῶν παστοφορίων, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν θησαυρῶν οἴκου τοῦ Θεοῦ παρεμβάλλουσιν, (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 9:26)
- καὶ Ματταθίασ ἐκ τῶν Λευιτῶν ἐν τῇ πίστει ἐπὶ τὰ ἔργα τῆσ θυσίασ τοῦ τηγάνου τοῦ μεγάλου ἱερέωσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 9:31)
Synonyms
-
faithfulness
-
means of persuasion
- πειθώ (means of persuasion, inducement, argument)
- παράδειγμα (argument, proof from example)
