πίστις
faith
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4102 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 31 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 4:2 πίστει n dat sg fem For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.
- Hebrews 6:1 πίστεως n gen sg fem Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
- Hebrews 6:12 πίστεως n gen sg fem that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.
- Hebrews 10:22 πίστεως n gen sg fem let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
- Hebrews 10:38 πίστεως n gen sg fem But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
- Hebrews 10:39 πίστεως n gen sg fem But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
- Hebrews 11:1 πίστις n nom sg fem Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
- Hebrews 11:3 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
- Hebrews 11:4 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
- Hebrews 11:5 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
- Hebrews 11:6 πίστεως n gen sg fem Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
- Hebrews 11:7 Πίστει πίστιν n dat sg fem n acc sg fem By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
- Hebrews 11:8 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
- Hebrews 11:9 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
- Hebrews 11:11 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- Hebrews 11:13 πίστιν n acc sg fem These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Hebrews 11:17 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;
- Hebrews 11:20 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
- Hebrews 11:21 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
- Hebrews 11:22 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.
- Hebrews 11:23 Πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
- Hebrews 11:24 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
- Hebrews 11:27 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
- Hebrews 11:28 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
- Hebrews 11:29 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, they passed through the Red sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
- Hebrews 11:30 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
- Hebrews 11:31 πίστει n dat sg fem By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
- Hebrews 11:33 πίστεως n gen sg fem who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
- Hebrews 11:39 πίστεως n gen sg fem These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,
- Hebrews 12:2 πίστεως n gen sg fem looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Hebrews 13:7 πίστιν n acc sg fem Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, πιστις (pístis) means “faith.” It first appears in Matthew 8:10. It turns up in 227 verses across 24 books, a common footprint. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It clusters with πειθω, πειθαρχεω and πειθος under a shared root. Dig into 227-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4102 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 227
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 227 distinct verses.
- 24 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 24 of 27 New Testament books.
- #65
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 65 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 227 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 227 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 132 verses · 58%
- Hebrews 31 verses · 14%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 25 verses · 11%
- Gospels 24 verses · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 22 verses · 10%
- Johannine 5 verses · 2%
- Revelation 4 verses · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Faith 234×, Through faith 3×
- American Standard Version: Faith 228×, Belief 2×, Faithfulness 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Faith 233×, Faithfulness 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Faith 238×, Of 7×, A 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4102 across 244 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4102 across 246 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4102 across 242 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4102 across 256 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- conviction of the truth of anything…
- fidelity, faithfulness
Word origin
Derived from πειθω (peíthō) (G3982) — to persuade.
From G3982 ; persuasion that is 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 : - assurance belief believe faith fidelity.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4102 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πίστεως písteōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 6:5 | 93 |
| πίστιν pístin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 8:10 | 55 |
| πίστει pístei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 3:16 | 50 |
| πίστις pístis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 9:22 | 36 |
| Πίστει Pístei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 11:3 | 8 |
| πίστεώς písteṓs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Philemon 1:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4102, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- πειθαρχεω peitharchéō G3980 to obey
- πειθος peithós G3981 persuasive
- πεισμονη peismonḗ G3988 persuasion
- πεποιθησις pepoíthēsis G4006 confidence
- πιθανολογια pithanología G4086 persuasive speech
- πιστος pistós G4103 faithful
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πιστις appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 31 verses in 12 books.
- 32
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 31
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 32:20 πίστις
- 1 Samuel 21:3 πίστις
- 2 Kings 12:16 πίστις
- 1 Chronicles 9:22 πίστις
- 2 Chronicles 31:12 πίστις
- Ezra 20:1 πίστις
- Psalms 32:4 πίστις
- Proverbs 3:3 πίστις
- Song of Solomon 4:8 πίστις
- Jeremiah 5:1 πίστις
- Hosea 2:22 πίστις
- Habakkuk 2:4 πίστις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4102) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 32:20 πίστις He said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
- 1 Samuel 21:3 πίστις Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present.
- 1 Samuel 26:23 πίστις Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.
- 2 Kings 12:16 πίστις The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'.
- 2 Kings 22:7 πίστις However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22 πίστις All these who were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26 πίστις for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:31 πίστις Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
- 2 Chronicles 31:12 πίστις They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
- 2 Chronicles 31:15 πίστις Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small:
- 2 Chronicles 31:18 πίστις and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness.
- 2 Chronicles 34:12 πίστις The men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to set it forward; and [others of] the Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music.
- Ezra 20:1 πίστις
- Psalms 32:4 πίστις For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- Proverbs 3:3 πίστις Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 12:17 πίστις He who is truthful testifies honestly, But a false witness lies.
- Proverbs 12:22 πίστις Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, But those who do the truth are his delight.
- Proverbs 14:22 πίστις Don't they go astray who plot evil? But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.
- Proverbs 15:27 πίστις He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes will live.
- Proverbs 15:28 πίστις The heart of the righteous weighs answers, But the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
- Song of Solomon 4:8 πίστις Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains of the leopards.
- Jeremiah 5:1 πίστις Run you back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
- Jeremiah 5:3 πίστις O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Jeremiah 7:28 πίστις You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
- Jeremiah 9:2 πίστις Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Jeremiah 15:18 πίστις Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
- Jeremiah 35:9 πίστις nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
- Jeremiah 39:41 πίστις
- Jeremiah 40:6 πίστις Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
- Hosea 2:22 πίστις And the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; And they will respond to Jezreel.
- Habakkuk 2:4 πίστις Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4102) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
