πιστεύω
pisteúō
to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ)
Lexicon
Derivation: from G4102 (πίστις);
to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ)
- to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit
- by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: believe(-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with
Usage
245 occurrences · 0 OT · 245 NT · 108 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- believe51 · 27%
- believed34 · 18%
- he that believeth14 · 7%
- believeth14 · 7%
- ye believe7 · 4%
- that believe6 · 3%
- believing6 · 3%
- we believe5 · 3%
- them that believe5 · 3%
- ye believed4 · 2%
- they believed4 · 2%
- believest thou4 · 2%
- i believe4 · 2%
- thou believest3 · 2%
- that believeth3 · 2%
- did3 · 2%
- have believed3 · 2%
- ye may believe3 · 2%
- that believed3 · 2%
- to believe2 · 1%
- ye will2 · 1%
- trust2 · 1%
- they should believe2 · 1%
- did ye2 · 1%
- thou hast believed2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.