πείθω

peivqw peivqw ((from the root meaning `to bind'; allied with
pivsti", fides, foedus, etc.; Curtius, sec. 327; Vanicek, p. 592)); imperfect
e[peiqon; future
peivsw; 1 aorist
ejpeisa; 2 perfect
pevpoiqa; pluperfect
ejpepoivqein (); passive (or middle, present
peivqomai; imperfect
ejpeiqomhn); perfect
pevpeismai; 1 aorist
ejpeivsqhn; 1 future
peisqhvsomai (); from Homer down;1. Active; a. to persuade, i. e. to induce one by words to believe: absolutely
peivsa"
metevsthsen
iJkanovn
o[clon, ;
tiv, to cause belief in a thing (which one sets forth), R G T (cf. Buttmann, 150 (131) n.) (Sophocles O. C. 1442); with the genitive of the thing, ibid. L Tr WH;
tina, one, ;
tina
tiv, one of a thing, Rec. (Herodotus 1, 163; Plato, Apology, p. 37 a., and elsewhere; (cf. Buttmann, as above));
tina
periv
tivno", concerning a thing, ibid. G L T Tr WH. b. as in classical Greek from Homer down, with an accusative of a person, to make friends of, win one's favor, gain one's good-will, ; or to seek to win one, strive to please one, ; ; to conciliate by persuasion, (here T WH omit; Tr brackets
aujtovn); ; equivalent to to tranquillize (A. V. assure),
tav"
kardiva"
hJmw'n, . c. to persuade unto i. e. move or induce one by persuasion to do something:
tina followed by an infinitive (R sec. 139, 46), ; (Xenophon, an. 1, 3, 19; Polybius 4, 64,2; Diodorus 11, 15; 12, 39; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 10, 3);
tina followed by
i{na (cf. Winer's Grammar, 338 (317); Buttmann, sec. 139, 40), (Plutarch, apoph. Alex. 21).2. Passive and middle (cf. Winer's Grammar, 253 (238)); a. to be persuaded, to suffer oneself to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: absol, ; ; to have faith, Rec.;
tivni, in a thing, ; to believe, namely,
o{ti, L T Tr WH.
pevpeismai
tiv (on the neuter accusative cf. Buttmann, sec. 131, 10)
periv
tivno" (genitive of person), to be persuaded (of) a thing concerning a person, (A. V. we are persuaded better things of you, etc.);
pepeismevno"
eijmiv, to have persuaded oneself, and
peivqomai, to believe (cf. English to be persuaded), followed by an accusative with an infinitive, ; ;
pevpeismai
o{ti, ; ,; with
ejn
kurivw/ added (see
ejn, I. 6 b.), ;
periv
tivno"
o{ti, . b. to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with:
tivni, one, f, 39(40); ; ; ; Rec.;; ; .3. 2 perfect
pevpoiqa (the Septuagint mostly for jf'B;, also for hs;j;, @['v]nI Niphal of the unused @['v;), intransitive, to trust, have confidence, be confident: followed by an accusative with an inf