What is the Strong's number for Pistis?

The Strong's number for Pistis (πίστις) is G4102. It is a Greek word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Pistis (Strong’s G4102): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Pistis mean?

Pistis (πίστις, Strong's G4102) is a Greek word. Strong's defines it as 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. The King James Bible translates it as assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.

Pistis (πίστις) is the Greek word numbered G4102 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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. In the King James Bible it is translated assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity..

πίστις

pístis · Greek

Strong’s G4102 · pis'-tis

Original wordπίστις
Transliterationpístis
Pronunciationpis'-tis
Strong’s numberG4102
LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

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

Derivation. from G3982;

How the King James Bible translates it

assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.

And Christ

In the New Testament this trust is never faith in general; it has an object. It rests its whole weight on Jesus, above all on his death and resurrection, because he has proved worthy of it.

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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