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Strong's G4103 · Greek

πιστός

pistos · pis-tos'

from 3982; objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

πιστός (G4103)

67 πιστός , -ή, -όν ( πείθω ), [in LXX chiefly for נֶאֱמָן ;] Pass., to be trusted or believed ; of persons, trusty , faithful : Mt 24:45 25:21 , 23 , Lk 12:42 , Ac 16:15 , I Co 4:2 , 17 7:25 , Eph 1:1 6:21 , Col 1:2 , 7 4:7 , 9 , I Ti 1:12 , II Ti 2:2 , He 2:17 3:2 , 5 , I Pe 5:12 , Re 2:13 19:11 ; of God, I Co 1:9 10:13 , II Co 1:18 , I Th 5:24 , II Th 3:3 , He 10:23 11:11 , II Ti 2:13 , I Jo 1:9 , I Pe 4:19 ; seq. ἐν , Lk 16:10-12 19:17 , I Ti 3:11 ; ἐπί , c. acc., Mt 25:23 ; ἄχρι θανάτου , Re 2:10 ; ὁ μάρτυς ὁ π. , Re 1:5 ; id. καὶ ἀληθινός , Re 3:14 . Of things, trustworthy , reliable , sure : Ac 13:34 , I Ti 1:15 3:1 4:9 , II Ti 2:11 , Tit 1:9 3:8 , Re 21:5 22:6 . Act., believing , trusting , relying : Ac 16:1 , II Co 6:15 , Ga 3:9 , I Ti 4:10 5:16 6:2 , Tit 1:6 , Re 17:14 ; pl., Ac 10:45 , I Ti 4:3 , 12 ; opp. to ἄπιστος , Jo 20:27 ; π. εἰς θεόν , I Pe 1:21 ; π. ποιεῖν , III Jo 5 . (On the difficulty of choosing in some cases between the active and the passive meaning, v. Lft., Gal. , 157.)†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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