Word study · Greek
pistis
faith, trust
Say it: PISS-tiss (approximate)
πίστις
What it means
Trust or confidence in someone, and also faithfulness or loyalty. In Matthew's healing stories it's the trust that comes to Jesus expecting help, often from unlikely people: a Roman officer, a bleeding woman, two blind men.
Range of meaning
- TrustConfidence in a person or what they can do.
- FaithfulnessBeing trustworthy and loyal (STEPBible tags this sense separately).
- The faithLater, what Christians believe.
In Matthew
- Chapter 8
"I haven't found such great faith, not even in Israel" (8:10).
- Chapter 9
The friends' faith, the woman's faith, and the blind men's faith (9:2, 9:22, 9:29).
Every verse (8)
Verses where G4102G or G4102H is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources