pisteuō G4100

πιστεύω (pisteuō) means “to trust (in)” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

πιστεύω Greek · G4100 235 tagged occurrences in 212 verses

Pronunciation guide: pist-yoo'-o Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G4100

πιστεύω · pisteuō · to trust (in)

πιστεύω, [in LXX chiefly for אמן hi. ;] 1. intrans., to have faith (in), to believe; in cl., with accusative, dative, in NT also with prep, (on the significance of the various constructions, see M, Pr., 67f.; Vau. on Rom.4:5; Ellic. on 1Ti.1:16; Abbott, JV, 19-80): absol., Mat.24:23, 26 Mrk.13:21, 1Co.11:18; with accusative of thing(s), Act.13:41, 1Co.13:7; with dative of person(s) (to believe what one says), Mrk.16:[13, 14], 1Jn.4:1; τ. ψεύδει, 2Th.2:11; περί . . . ὅτι, Jhn.9:18; esp. and most frequently with reference to religious belief: absol., Mat.8:13, Mrk.5:36, Luk.8:50, Jhn.11:40, al.; before ὅτι, Mat.9:28, al.; with dative (see supr., and cf. DB, i, 829a), Jhn.3:12 5:24 6:30 8:31, Act.16:34, Gal.3:6" (LXX), 2Ti.1:12, 1Jn.5:10, al.; with prep., (expressing personal trust and reliance as distinct from mere credence or belief; see M, Pr., l.with; DB, i, 829b), to believe in or on: ἐν (Psa.77 (78):22, al.), Mrk.1:15 (see Swete, in l.); εἰς, Mat.18:6, Jhn.2:11 (see Westc., in l.), and freq., Act.10:43 19:4, Rom.10:14, Gal.2:16, Php.1:29, I Jhn.5:10, 1Pe.1:8; εἰς τ. ὄνομα, Jhn.1:12 2:23 3:18, 1Jn.5:13; ἐπί, with accusative, Mat.27:42, Act.9:42 11:17 16:31 22:19, Rom.4:5; ἐπί, with dative, Rom.9:33 (LXX) 10:11 (ib.), 1Ti.1:16, 1Pe.2:6" (LXX) ; ptcp. pres., οἱ π., as subst., Act.2:44, Rom.3:22, 1Co.1:21, al.; aor., Mrk.16:[16], Act.4:32; pf., Act.19:18 21:20 (on Johannine use of the tenses of π., see Westc, Epp. Jo., 120). 2. Trans., to entrust: with accusative and dative, Luk.16:11, Jhn.2:24; pass., to be entrusted with: with accusative, Rom.3:2, 1Co.9:17, Gal.2:7, 1Th.2:4 (see Lft., Notes, 21f.), 1Ti.1:11, Tit.1:3. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

I believe, have faith in, trust in; pass: I am entrusted with.

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How translators render G4100

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
believe	45
believes	29
believed	28
believers	8
have believed	7
do you believe	4
i believe	4
to believe	4
we believe	4
you believe	4
you do not believe	4
did not believe	3
did you not believe	3
has believed	3
they believed	3
you believed	3
you did not believe	3
you have believed	3
and believed	2
believe it	2
believing	2
do not believe	2
does not believe	2
had believed	2
he believed	2
he has not believed	2
may believe	2
who believed	2
will believe	2
will you believe	2
you may believe	2
you will believe	2
and believe	1
believe in him	1
believe that	1
but they did not believe	1
by believing	1
can they believe in the one	1
did	1
do not believe it	1
do you finally believe	1
do you not believe	1
entrust	1
entrusted	1
has faith	1
have been entrusted	1
have disbelieved	1
i am still entrusted with	1
i believed	1
i do believe	1
i had been entrusted to preach	1
i have believed	1
i may believe	1
i will never believe	1
if you believe	1
in whom they have not believed	1
might believe	1
that they had come to believe	1
they did not believe	1
they do not believe	1
they had believed	1
they have been entrusted with	1
they may believe	1
they may not believe	1
they still did not believe	1
to be entrusted with	1
took	1
was believed in	1
we first believed	1
we now believe	1
we should believe	1
we will believe	1
when you became believers	1
who believe	1
who had believed	1
who have believed	1
will entrust	1
you do	1
you had believed	1
you will never believe	1
you will not believe	1
you would believe	1
you would never believe	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
believe	54
believed	34
believeth	15
he that believeth	7
ye believe	7
believing	6
that believe	6
we believe	5
ye believed	5
i believe	4
they believed	4
did	3
have believed	3
them that believe	3
thou believest	3
ye may believe	3
ye might believe	3
and believed	2
believest thou	2
did ye	2
hath believed	2
might believe	2
shall ye believe	2
that believeth	2
they should believe	2
thou hast believed	2
trust	2
which believe	2
which believed	2
who believed	2
ye will	2
after that ye believed	1
believe ye	1
believed on	1
believed they	1
believed ye	1
believers	1
believest	1
commit	1
do believe	1
do ye	1
dost	1
had believed	1
he	1
he believed	1
he believeth	1
he hath	1
i	1
i believed	1
i have believed	1
i might believe	1
i will	1
is committed unto	1
is committed unto me	1
man believeth	1
may believe	1
of	1
of them that believed	1
ones that believe	1
shall believe	1
shall they believe	1
shalt believe	1
she that believed	1
should believe	1
since ye believed	1
that believed	1
them that believed	1
they believe	1
they have	1
they have believed	1
they may believe	1
they which have believed	1
thou wouldest believe	1
to be put in trust with	1
to believe	1
to him that believeth	1
unto them were committed	1
was believed	1
was committed to	1
was committed unto me	1
we	1
we believed	1
we should believe	1
we will believe	1
which have believed	1
which shall believe	1
will believe	1
will commit	1
ye shall	1
ye would have believed	1
yet they believed	1

Verses containing G4100

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John 14:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.
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John 16:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;
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John 16:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
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John 16:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”
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John 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do you finally believe?” Jesus replied.
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John 17:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
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John 17:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,
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John 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
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John 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in. And he saw and believed.
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John 20:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands, and put my finger where the nails have been, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe.”
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John 20:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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John 20:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
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Acts 2:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the believers were together and had everything in common.
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Acts 4:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
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Acts 4:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
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Acts 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
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Acts 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when they believed Philip as he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
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Acts 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.
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Acts 9:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
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Acts 9:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord.
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Acts 10:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the prophets testify about Him that everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.”
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Acts 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So if God gave them the same gift He gave us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder the work of God?”
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Acts 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.
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Acts 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, for he was astonished at the teaching about the Lord.
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Acts 13:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Through Him everyone who believes is justified from everything from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
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Acts 13:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
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Acts 13:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
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Acts 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
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Acts 14:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, praying and fasting as they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.
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Acts 15:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”
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Acts 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.
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Acts 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
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Acts 16:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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Acts 16:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.
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Acts 17:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As a result, many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.
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Acts 17:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.
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Acts 18:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Crispus, the synagogue leader, and his whole household believed in the Lord. And many of the Corinthians who heard the message believed and were baptized.
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Acts 18:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Apollos resolved to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival, he was a great help to those who by grace had believed.
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Acts 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
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Acts 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Paul explained: “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the One coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”
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Acts 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Many who had believed now came forward, confessing and disclosing their deeds.
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Acts 21:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
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Acts 21:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
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Acts 22:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
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Acts 24:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
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Acts 26:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”
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Acts 27:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.
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Romans 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
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Romans 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
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Romans 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
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