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Word Study · Strong's G4102 · Greek

πίστις

pistis

pis'-tis

Strong's 1890 spelling: pístis

persuasion, i.e. credence

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.

  • 242
    occurrencesin the New Testament
  • 24 of 27
    New Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 23
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 242 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 23

  • πίστεως68
  • πίστιν46
  • πίστις30
  • πίστει26
  • Πίστει18
  • πίστει,9
  • πίστεως.9
  • πίστεως,8
  • πίστις,4
  • πίστεως;3
  • πίστεως·3
  • πίστιν.3

and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 28

  • faith141
  • By faith18
  • faith,18
  • faith.11
  • of faith11
  • of faith.6
  • [the] faith5
  • by faith4
  • faith;3
  • [his] faith2
  • a faith2
  • faith!2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 4

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular93
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular58
  • noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular55
  • noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular36
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • N-GSF · 93
  • N-DSF · 58
  • N-ASF · 55
  • N-NSF · 36

All 242, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Romans carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Matthew8 occurrences
Mark5 occurrences
Luke11 occurrences
Acts15 occurrences
Romans39 occurrences
1 Corinthians7 occurrences
2 Corinthians7 occurrences
Galatians22 occurrences
Ephesians8 occurrences
Philippians5 occurrences
Colossians5 occurrences
1 Thessalonians8 occurrences
2 Thessalonians5 occurrences
1 Timothy19 occurrences
2 Timothy8 occurrences
Titus6 occurrences
Philemon2 occurrences
Hebrews32 occurrences
James16 occurrences
1 Peter5 occurrences
2 Peter2 occurrences
1 John1 occurrence
Jude2 occurrences
Revelation4 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).