Strong's Number 4100
Transliteration:
pisteuo
{pist-yoo'-o}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
6:174,849
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
believe 239, commit unto 4, commit to (one's) trust 1, be committed unto 1, be put in trust with 1, be commit to one's trust 1, believer 1
Total: 248
Definition:
- to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
- of the thing believed
- to credit, have confidence
- in a moral or religious reference
- used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul
- to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith
- mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith
- to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
- to be intrusted with a thing