πιστόω
to make faithful
‘to make 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
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4104 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
2 Timothy 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.
πιστοω — transliterated pistóō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to make faithful.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Timothy. A true hapax — its single appearance is 2 Timothy 3:14. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4104 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Timothy 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
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: Hast been assured of 1×
- American Standard Version: Hast been assured of 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Firmly believed 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Were convinced of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4104 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4104 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4104 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4104 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- to make faithful, render trustworthy
- to be firmly persuaded of
Word origin
Derived from πιστος (pistós) (G4103) — faithful.
From G4103 ; to assure : - assure of.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πιστοω appears 11 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 5 books.
- 11
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 7:16 πιστόω
- 1 Kings 1:36 πιστόω
- 1 Chronicles 17:14 πιστόω
- 2 Chronicles 1:9 πιστόω
- Psalms 77:8 πιστόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4104) 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.
- 2 Samuel 7:16 πιστόω Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
- 2 Samuel 7:25 πιστόω Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, and do as you have spoken.
- 1 Kings 1:36 πιστόω Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so [too].
- 1 Kings 8:26 πιστόω Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.
- 1 Chronicles 17:14 πιστόω but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever; and his throne shall be established forever.
- 1 Chronicles 17:23 πιστόω Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.
- 2 Chronicles 1:9 πιστόω Now, Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
- 2 Chronicles 6:17 πιστόω Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.
- Psalms 77:8 πιστόω Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
- Psalms 77:37 πιστόω
- Psalms 92:5 πιστόω How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4104) 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.
