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πίστις
pístis · Greek · Strong's G4102 · 243 occurrences
What it means
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
from G3982 (πείθω);
How the KJV renders it
assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
Questions this word decides
- Is baptism required for salvation?
- Should Christians pray to saints?
- Is 1 Enoch inspired or canonical scripture?
- Is tithing required for Christians?
- What does 1 Peter 3:21 mean ('baptism now saves you')?
- What does Romans 14:5 mean about esteeming one day above another?
Where it appears
243 occurrences in the Greek text, first 60 verses shown.
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Greek text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.