- Transliteration: Pisteuo

- Phonetic: pist-yoo'-o

- Definition:

1. to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in

a. of the thing believed

1. to credit, have confidence

b. in a moral or religious reference

1. 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

2. to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith 1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith

2. to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity

a. to be intrusted with a thing

- Origin: from G4102" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4102

- TDNT entry: 08:54,8

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G4102" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4102; to have faith (in upon or with respect to a person or thing) that is credit; by implication to entrust (especially one´ s spiritual well being to christ): - believe (-r) commit (to trust) put in trust with.