Strong's #4100: pisteuo (pronounced pist-yoo'-o)
from 4102; 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):--believe(-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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pisteuō
1) to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
1a) of the thing believed
1a1) to credit, have confidence
1b) in a moral or religious reference
1b1) 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
1b2) to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith
2) to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
2a) to be intrusted with a thing
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: from G4102
Citing in TDNT: 6:174, 849
Usage:
This word is used 251 times:
John 11:42: "which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."
John 11:45: "the things which Jesus did, believed on him."
John 11:48: "If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him:"
John 12:11: "Jews went away, and believed on Jesus."
John 12:36: "While ye have light, believe in the light, that"
John 12:37: "miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:"
John 12:38: "he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom"
John 12:39: "Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah said"
John 12:42: "among the chief rulers also many believed on him;"
John 12:44: "cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not"
John 12:44: "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but"
John 12:46: "world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide"
John 12:47: "my words, and believe not, I judge him"
John 13:19: "it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am"
John 14:1: "your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also"
John 14:1: "ye believe in God, believe also in me."
John 14:10: " Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and"
John 14:11: " Believe me that I am in the Father, and"
John 14:11: "in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake."
John 14:12: "verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works"
John 14:29: "that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe."
John 16:9: "sin, because they believe not on me;"
John 16:27: "have loved me, and have believed that I came out from"
John 16:30: "should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from"
John 16:31: "answered them, Do ye now believe?"
John 17:8: "from thee, and they have believed that thou"
John 17:8: "from thee, and they have believed that thou"
John 17:20: "these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me"
John 17:21: "that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."
John 19:35: "true, that ye might believe."
John 20:8: "and he saw, and believed."
John 20:25: "of the nails, and thrust my"
John 20:25: "of the nails, and thrust my"
John 20:29: "because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and"
John 20:29: "blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."
John 20:31: "these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the"
John 20:31: "of God; and that believing ye might have life through his"
Acts 2:44: "And all that believed were together, and had"
Acts 4:4: "of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the"
Acts 4:32: "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and"
Acts 5:14: "And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both"
Acts 8:12: "But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the"
Acts 8:13: "Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued"
Acts 8:37: "Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest."
Acts 8:37: "And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the"
Acts 9:26: "but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was"
Acts 9:42: "Joppa; and many believed in the Lord."
Acts 10:43: "give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in"
Acts 11:17: "as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus"
Acts 11:21: "and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord."
