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Lexicon :: Strong's G4103 - pistos

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πιστός
Transliteration
pistos (Key)
Pronunciation
pis-tos'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:174,849

Strong’s Definitions

πιστός pistós, pis-tos'; from G3982; objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful:—believe(-ing, -r), faithful(-ly), sure, true.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x

The KJV translates Strong's G4103 in the following manner: faithful (53x), believe (6x), believing (2x), true (2x), faithfully (1x), believer (1x), sure (1x), not translated (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x
The KJV translates Strong's G4103 in the following manner: faithful (53x), believe (6x), believing (2x), true (2x), faithfully (1x), believer (1x), sure (1x), not translated (1x).

  1. trusty, faithful

    1. of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of business, the execution of commands, or the discharge of official duties

    2. one who kept his plighted faith, worthy of trust

    3. that can be relied on

  2. easily persuaded

    1. believing, confiding, trusting

    2. in the NT one who trusts in God's promises

      1. one who is convinced that Jesus has been raised from the dead

      2. one who has become convinced that Jesus is the Messiah and author of salvation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πιστός pistós, pis-tos'; from G3982; objectively, trustworthy; subjectively, trustful:—believe(-ing, -r), faithful(-ly), sure, true.
STRONGS G4103:
πιστός, πιστή, πιστόν (πείθω (which see)) (from Homer down), the Sept. mostly for נֶאֱמָן;
1. trusty, faithful; of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of business, the execution of commands, or the discharge of official duties: δοῦλος, Matthew 24:45; Matthew 25:21, 23; οἰκονόμος, Luke 12:42; 1 Corinthians 4:2; διάκονος, Ephesians 6:21; Colossians 1:7; Colossians 4:7; ἀρχιερεύς, Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:2; of God, abiding by his promises, 1 Corinthians 1:9; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; Hebrews 10:23; Hebrews 11:11; 2 Timothy 2:13; 1 John 1:9; 1 Peter 4:19; add, 1 Corinthians 4:17; Colossians 4:9; 1 Timothy 1:12; Hebrews 3:5; 1 Peter 5:12; πιστός ἐν τίνι, in a thing, Luke 16:10-12; Luke 19:17; 1 Timothy 3:11; ἐπί τί, Matthew 25:23; ἄχρι θανάτου, Revelation 2:10. one who kept his plighted faith, Revelation 2:13; worthy of trust; that can, be relied on: 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Timothy 2:2: Christ is called μάρτυς ὁ πιστός, Revelation 1:5; with καί ἀληθινός, added, Revelation 3:14; (cf. Revelation 19:11). of things, that can be relied on: ὁ λόγος, 1 Timothy 3:1; 2 Timothy 2:11; Titus 1:9; (Titus 3:8; οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι, Revelation 21:5; Revelation 22:6); with πάσης ἀποδοχῆς ἄξιος added, 1 Timothy 1:15; 1 Timothy 4:9; τά ὅσια Δαυις τά πιστά (see ὅσιος, at the end), Acts 13:34.
2. easily persuaded; believing, confiding, trusting (Theognis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, others); in the N. T. one who trusts in God's promises, Galatians 3:9; is convinced that Jesus has been raised from the dead, opposed to ἄπιστος, John 20:27; one who has become convinced that Jesus is the Messiah and the author of salvation (opposed to ἄπιστος, see πιστεύω, 1 b. γ. and πίστις, 1 b.) (a believer): Acts 16:1; 2 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Timothy 5:16; with the addition of τῷ κυρίῳ, dative of the person in whom faith or trust is reposed, Acts 16:15; plural in Colossians 1:2 (where cf. Lightfoot); 1 Timothy 4:10; 1 Timothy 6:2; Titus 1:6; Revelation 17:14; οἱ πιστοί, substantively (see Lightfoot on Galatians, p. 157), Acts 10:45; 1 Timothy 4:3, 12; with ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ added (cf. Buttmann, 174 (152)), Ephesians 1:1; εἰς Θεόν κτλ. 1 Peter 1:21 L T Tr text WH; πιστόν ποιεῖν τί, to do something harmonizing with (Christian) faith (R. V. a faithful work), 3 John 1:5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
24:45; 25:21; 25:23; 25:23
Luke
12:42; 16:10; 16:11; 16:12; 19:17
John
20:27
Acts
10:45; 13:34; 16:1; 16:15
1 Corinthians
1:9; 4:2; 4:17; 7:25; 10:13
2 Corinthians
1:18; 6:15
Galatians
3:9
Ephesians
1:1; 6:21
Colossians
1:2; 1:7; 4:7; 4:9
1 Thessalonians
5:24
2 Thessalonians
3:3
1 Timothy
1:12; 1:15; 3:1; 3:11; 4:3; 4:9; 4:10; 4:12; 5:16; 6:2
2 Timothy
2:2; 2:11; 2:13
Titus
1:6; 1:9; 3:8
Hebrews
2:17; 3:2; 3:5; 10:23; 11:11
1 Peter
1:21; 4:19; 5:12
1 John
1:9
3 John
1:5
Revelation
1:5; 2:10; 2:13; 3:14; 17:14; 19:11; 21:5; 22:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4103 matches the Greek πιστός (pistos),
which occurs 46 times in 44 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:7 - Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:59

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:4 - “The Rock, his work is perfect,
for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
just and upright is he.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:35 - And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:20 - And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 - Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over[fn] your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:28 - Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - Then she said, “They used to say in former times, ‘Let them but ask counsel at Abel,’ and so they settled a matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:1 - Now these are the last words of David:
The oracle of David, the son of Jesse,
the oracle of the man who was raised on high,
the anointed of the God of Jacob,
the sweet psalmist of Israel:[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:38 - And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:2 - Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:8 - You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:13 - And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:20 - He deprives of speech those who are trusted
and takes away the discernment of the elders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 17:9 - Yet the righteous holds to his way,
and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:7 - The law of the LORD is perfect,[fn]
reviving the soul;
the testimony of the LORD is sure,
making wise the simple;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:28 - My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,
and my covenant will stand firm[fn] for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:37

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:37 - Like the moon it shall be established forever,
a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 101:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:6 - I will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in the way that is blameless
shall minister to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 111:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:7 - The works of his hands are faithful and just;
all his precepts are trustworthy;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 145:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:13 - Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures throughout all generations.
[The LORD is faithful in all his words
and kind in all his works.][fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:12 - delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:13 - Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets,
but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:21 - Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished,
but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:17 - A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a faithful envoy brings healing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:5 - A faithful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:25 - A truthful witness saves lives,
but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:6 - Grandchildren are the crown of the aged,
and the glory of children is their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:7 - Fine speech is not becoming to a fool;
still less is false speech to a prince.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:6 - Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love,
but a faithful man who can find?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:13 - Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
is a faithful messenger to those who send him;
he refreshes the soul of his masters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - How the faithful city
has become a whore,[fn]
she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:26 - And 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,
the faithful city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:2 - And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:23 - And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:25 - In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:16 - he will dwell on the heights;
his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks;
his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:7 - Thus says the LORD,
the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
the servant of rulers:
“Kings shall see and arise;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the LORD, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:3 - Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:5 - Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:45 - just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:4 - Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 5:9 - Ephraim shall become a desolation
in the day of punishment;
among the tribes of Israel
I make known what is sure.
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