Bible word study

Pisteuo (Strong’s G4100): Meaning in the Bible

Pisteuo (πιστεύω) is the Greek word numbered G4100 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ). In the King James Bible it is translated believe(-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with..

• Original wordπιστεύω
• Transliterationpisteúō
• Pronunciationpist-yoo'-o
• Strong’s numberG4100
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G4102;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Pisteuo appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Pisteuo (G4100) stands behind 271 English renderings in 220 verses across 21 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in John (112), Acts (41), Romans (22).

How the King James Bible renders Pisteuo, by count

• believe89 of 271 (33 percent)
• believed66 of 271 (24 percent)
• believeth24 of 271 (9 percent)
• he that believeth7 of 271 (3 percent)
• ye believe7 of 271 (3 percent)
• believing6 of 271 (2 percent)

Three places to read Pisteuo

• Matthew 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
• John 8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
• Acts 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Pisteuo in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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