πιστεύω

pisteuvw pisteuvw; imperfect
ejpivsteuon; future
pisteuvsw; 1 aorist
ejpivsteusa; perfect
pepivsteuka; pluperfect (without augment, cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 12, 9; (Buttmann, 33 (29)))
pepisteuvkein (); passive perfect
pepivsteumai; 1 aorist
ejpisteuvqhn; (
pistov"); the Septuagint for @ymia>h,; in classical Greek from Aeschyl, Sophocles, Euripides, Thucydides down; to believe, i. e.1. intransitive, to think to be true; to be persuaded of; to credit, place confidence in; a. universally: the thing believed being evident from the preceding context, ,(26); ; ; with an accusative of the thing, (L T Tr WH
oJ for Rec.
w|/), to credit, have confidence, followed by
o{ti, ;
tivni, to believe one's words, f; ;
tivni
o{ti, ;
tw'/
yeuvdei, ;
periv
tivno",
o{ti, . b. specifically, in a moral and religious reference,
pisteuvein is used in the N. T. of "the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of his soul"; thus it stands
a. absolutely to trust in Jesus or in God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: ; ; ; f; ; ; followed by
o{ti, ; ; ();
tw'/
lovgw/,
w|/ (
o{n)
ei\pen
oJ
!Ihsou'", .
b. of the credence given to God's messengers and their words, with a dative of the person or thing:
Mwu>sei' . to the prophets, ; ; ; ;
ejpiv
pa'sin
oi|"
ejlavlhsan
oiJ
profh'tai, to place reliance on etc. . to an angel, ; followed by
o{ti, . to John the Baptist, (26),32; ; . to Christ's words, ; ,f; ; f; 10:(37),38{a};
toi'"
e[rgoi" of Christ, {b}. to the teachings of evangelists and apostles, ;
th'/
ajlhvqeia, ;
ejpisteuvqh
tov
martuvrion, the testimony was believed, (cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 39,1 a.; Buttmann, 175 (152));
th'/
grafhv, .
ejn
tw'/
eujaggelivw/, to put faith in the gospel, (Buttmann, 174 (151f); cf. Winer's Grammar, 213 (200f)) (Ignatius ad Philad. 8, 2 ((but see Zahn's note); cf. in
g. below)).
g. used especially of the faith by which a man embraces Jesus, i. e. "a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah -- the divinely appointed author of eternal salvation in the kingdom of God, conjoined with obedience to Christ":
pisteuvw
tovn
uiJovn
tou'
Qeou'
ei\nai
!Ihsou'n
Cristovn, Rec.;
ejpisteuvqh (was believed o