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.
- ἤδη δὲ καί τινεσ γείτονέσ τε καὶ φίλοι καὶ συμπραγματευόμενοι μυστικῶσ τινασ ἐπισπώμενοι, πίστεισ ἐδίδουν συνασπιεῖν καὶ πᾶν ἐκτενὲσ προσοίσεσθαι πρὸσ ἀντίληψιν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 3:10)
- ἐλεημοσύναι καὶ πίστεισ μὴ ἐκλιπέτωσάν σε, ἄφαψαι δὲ αὐτὰσ ἐπὶ σῷ τραχήλῳ, καὶ εὑρήσεισ χάριν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 3:3)
- βδέλυγμα Κυρίῳ χείλη ψευδῆ, ὁ δὲ ποιῶν πίστεισ δεκτὸσ παῤ αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 12:24)
- πλανώμενοι τεκταίνουσι κακά, ἔλεον δὲ καὶ ἀλήθειαν τεκταίνουσιν ἀγαθοί. οὐκ ἐπίστανται ἔλεον καὶ πίστιν τέκτονεσ κακῶν, ἐλεημοσύναι δὲ καὶ πίστεισ παρὰ τέκτοσιν ἀγαθοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 14:22)
- καρδίαι δικαίων μελετῶσι πίστεισ, στόμα δὲ ἀσεβῶν ἀποκρίνεται κακά. . (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 15:30)
Synonyms
-
faithfulness
-
means of persuasion
- πειθώ (means of persuasion, inducement, argument)
- παράδειγμα (argument, proof from example)
