πιστός
faithful
‘faithful’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
5 distinct verses where G4103 appears in the Genitive case, across 4 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts 1 verse
1 Timothy 2 verses
- 1 Timothy 4:10 πιστῶν adj gen pl masc For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
- 1 Timothy 4:12 πιστῶν adj gen pl masc Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
Titus 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
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.
πιστος — transliterated pistós — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “faithful.” It first appears in Matthew 24:45. With 63 verses in 19 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. From the same root come πειθω, πειθαρχεω and πειθος. See the sense tree, 63-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4103 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 →
- 63
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 63 distinct verses.
- 19 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 19 of 27 New Testament books.
- #247
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 247 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 63 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Timothy 10 verses 16%
- Revelation 8 verses 13%
- Luke 5 verses 8%
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 63 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 32 verses · 51%
- Johannine 11 verses · 17%
- Gospels 9 verses · 14%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 9 verses · 14%
- Revelation 8 verses · 13%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 8%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 8%
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: Faithful 42×, Is a faithful 4×, Believe 2×
- American Standard Version: Faithful 43×, Believe 4×, Is faithful 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Faithful 45×, Trustworthy 6×, Believe 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Faithful 37×, Trustworthy 6×, Is faithful 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4103 across 67 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 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 G4103 across 66 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 G4103 across 67 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4103 across 67 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.
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.
- trusty, faithful
- easily persuaded
Word origin
Derived from πειθω (peíthō) (G3982) — to persuade.
From G3982 ; objectively trustworthy ; subjectively trustful : - believe (-ing -r) faithful (-ly) sure true.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 18 distinct written forms G4103 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4103, 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
- πιστις pístis G4102 faith
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πιστος appears 44 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 42 verses in 13 books.
- 44
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 42
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Numbers 12:7 πιστός
- Deuteronomy 7:9 πιστός
- 1 Samuel 2:35 πιστός
- 2 Samuel 20:18 πιστός
- 1 Kings 11:38 πιστός
- Ezra 19:8 πιστός
- Job 12:20 πιστός
- Psalms 18:8 πιστός
- Proverbs 2:12 πιστός
- Isaiah 1:21 πιστός
- Jeremiah 49:5 πιστός
- Daniel 2:45 πιστός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4103) 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.
- Numbers 12:7 πιστός My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
- Deuteronomy 7:9 πιστός Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
- Deuteronomy 28:59 πιστός then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
- Deuteronomy 32:4 πιστός The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
- 1 Samuel 2:35 πιστός I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
- 1 Samuel 3:20 πιστός All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 22:14 πιστός Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
- 1 Samuel 25:28 πιστός Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.
- 2 Samuel 20:18 πιστός Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].
- 2 Samuel 23:1 πιστός Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, The man who was raised on high says, The anointed of the God of Jacob, The sweet psalmist of Israel:
- 1 Kings 11:38 πιστός It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.
- Ezra 19:8 πιστός
- Ezra 23:13 πιστός
- Job 12:20 πιστός He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
- Job 17:9 πιστός Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
- Psalms 18:8 πιστός Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
- Psalms 88:29 πιστός
- Psalms 88:38 πιστός
- Psalms 100:6 πιστός
- Psalms 110:7 πιστός He will drink of the brook in the way; Therefore he will lift up his head.
- Psalms 144:13 πιστός Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
- Proverbs 2:12 πιστός To deliver you from the way of evil, From the men who speak perverse things;
- Proverbs 11:13 πιστός One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, But one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
- Proverbs 11:21 πιστός Most assuredly, the evil man will not be unpunished, But the seed of the righteous will be delivered.
- Proverbs 13:17 πιστός A wicked messenger falls into trouble, But a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
- Proverbs 14:5 πιστός A truthful witness will not lie, But a false witness pours out lies.
- Proverbs 14:25 πιστός A truthful witness saves souls, But a false witness is deceitful.
- Proverbs 17:6 πιστός Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.
- Proverbs 17:7 πιστός Arrogant speech isn't fitting for a fool, Much less do lying lips fit a prince.
- Proverbs 20:6 πιστός Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, But who can find a faithful man?
- Proverbs 25:13 πιστός As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, So is a faithful messenger to those who send him; For he refreshes the soul of his masters.
- Isaiah 1:21 πιστός How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in her, But now murderers.
- Isaiah 1:26 πιστός I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, A faithful town.'
- Isaiah 8:2 πιστός and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
- Isaiah 22:23 πιστός I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
- Isaiah 22:25 πιστός In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Isaiah 33:16 πιστός He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
- Isaiah 49:7 πιστός Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
- Isaiah 55:3 πιστός Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Jeremiah 49:5 πιστός Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.
- Daniel 2:45 πιστός Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
- Hosea 5:9 πιστός Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4103) 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.
