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 Romans — 35 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.
Romans
- Romans 1:5 πίστεως n gen sg fem through whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
- Romans 1:8 πίστις n nom sg fem First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
- Romans 1:12 πίστεως n gen sg fem that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.
- Romans 1:17 πίστεως πίστιν πίστεως n gen sg fem n acc sg fem n gen sg fem For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
- Romans 3:3 πίστιν n acc sg fem For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
- Romans 3:22 πίστεως n gen sg fem even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
- Romans 3:25 πίστεως n gen sg fem whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance;
- Romans 3:26 πίστεως n gen sg fem to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
- Romans 3:27 πίστεως n gen sg fem Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what manner of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
- Romans 3:28 πίστει n dat sg fem We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
- Romans 3:30 πίστεως πίστεως n gen sg fem n gen sg fem since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.
- Romans 3:31 πίστεως n gen sg fem Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Romans 4:5 πίστις n nom sg fem But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
- Romans 4:9 πίστις n nom sg fem Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.
- Romans 4:11 πίστεως n gen sg fem He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
- Romans 4:12 πίστεως n gen sg fem The father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
- Romans 4:13 πίστεως n gen sg fem For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
- Romans 4:14 πίστις n nom sg fem For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
- Romans 4:16 πίστεως πίστεως n gen sg fem n gen sg fem For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
- Romans 4:19 πίστει n dat sg fem Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
- Romans 4:20 πίστει n dat sg fem Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
- Romans 5:1 πίστεως n gen sg fem Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Romans 5:2 πίστει n dat sg fem through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Romans 9:30 πίστεως n gen sg fem What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
- Romans 9:32 πίστεως n gen sg fem Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
- Romans 10:6 πίστεως n gen sg fem But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);
- Romans 10:8 πίστεως n gen sg fem But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
- Romans 10:17 πίστις n nom sg fem So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
- Romans 11:20 πίστει n dat sg fem True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don't be conceited, but fear;
- Romans 12:3 πίστεως n gen sg fem For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
- Romans 12:6 πίστεως n gen sg fem Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
- Romans 14:1 πίστει n dat sg fem Now receive one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
- Romans 14:22 πίστιν n acc sg fem Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.
- Romans 14:23 πίστεως πίστεως n gen sg fem n gen sg fem But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. (14:24) Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, (14:25) but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; (14:26) to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
- Romans 16:26 πίστεως n gen sg fem
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.
