Bible word study

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

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..

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

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G3982;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Pistis appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Pistis (G4102) stands behind 247 English renderings in 228 verses across 24 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Romans (40), Hebrews (33), Galatians (22).

How the King James Bible renders Pistis, by count

• faith238 of 247 (96 percent)
• of2 of 247 (1 percent)
• assurance1 of 247 (0 percent)
• belief1 of 247 (0 percent)
• believe1 of 247 (0 percent)
• believeth1 of 247 (0 percent)

Three places to read Pistis

• Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
• 1 Corinthians 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
• 1 Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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.

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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