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πιστός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιστός πιστοῦ

Structure: πιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pi/nw

Sense

  1. faithful, trusty
  2. obedient, loyal
  3. faithful, believing

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πιστός πιστώ πιστοί
Genitive πιστοῦ πιστοῖν πιστῶν
Dative πιστῷ πιστοῖν πιστοῖς
Accusative πιστόν πιστώ πιστούς
Vocative πιστέ πιστώ πιστοί

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.

Examples

  • οὐχ οὕτωσ ὁ θεράπων μου Μωυσῆσ. ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ μου πιστόσ ἐστι. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 12:7)
  • καὶ γνώσῃ ὅτι Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου, οὗτοσ Θεόσ, Θεὸσ πιστόσ, ὁ φυλάσσων διαθήκην καὶ ἔλεοσ τοῖσ ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτὸν καὶ τοῖσ φυλάσσουσι τὰσ ἐντολὰσ αὐτοῦ εἰσ χιλίασ γενεὰς (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 7:9)
  • Θεόσ, ἀληθινὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ, καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ὁδοὶ αὐτοῦ κρίσεισ. Θεὸσ πιστόσ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀδικία, δίκαιοσ καὶ ὅσιοσ Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 32:4)
  • καὶ ἔγνωσαν πᾶσ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ Δὰν καὶ ἕωσ Βηρσαβεὲ ὅτι πιστὸσ Σαμουὴλ εἰσ προφήτην τῷ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 3:20)
  • καὶ ἀπεκρίθη τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ εἶπε. καὶ τίσ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ δούλοισ σου ὡσ Δαυὶδ πιστὸσ καὶ γαμβρὸσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ἄρχων παντὸσ παραγγέλματόσ σου καὶ ἔνδοξοσ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ σου̣ (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 22:14)

Synonyms

  1. obedient

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