Lexical Summary pistoō: to make trustworthy, to establish Original Word: πιστόωTransliteration: pistoō Phonetic Spelling: (pis-to'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to make trustworthy, to establish Meaning: to make trustworthy, to establish Strong's Concordance assureFrom pistos; to assure -- assure of. see GREEK pistos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4104: πιστόωπιστόω, πιστῷ: 1 aorist passive ἐπιστωθην; (πιστός); 1. to make faithful, render trustworthy: τό ῤῆμα, 1 Kings 1:36; τινα ὅρκοις, Thucydides 4, 88; universally, to make firm, establish, 1 Chronicles 17:14. 2. Passive (the Sept. in various senses for נֶאֱמָן) and middle to be firmly persuaded of; to be assured of: τί (Opp. cyn. 3, 355. 417; Lucian, philops. 5), 2 Timothy 3:14; Hesychius ἐπιστώθη. ἐπείσθη, ἐπληροφορήθη. (In various other senses in secular authors from Homer down.) |
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