noun · feminine
pepoithēsias
Strong’sG4006
confidence, trust
stem pepoithēsi-6 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† πεποίθησις, -εως, ἡ
(< πείθω), [in LXX: IV Ki 18:19 (בִּטָּחוֹן)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4006 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpep-oy'-thay-sis
reliance
Fromfrom the perfect of the alternate of G3958;
King Jamesconfidence, trust.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
trust, confidence, boldness, LXX+1st c.BC+: in plural, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pepoithēsias | pepoithēsiais |
| object accusative | pepoithēsian2×Πεποίθησιν | pepoithēsiain |
| direct address vocative | pepoithēsiar | pepoithēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pepoithēsiau | pepoithēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | pepoithēsia4×πεποιθήσει | pepoithēsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
pepoithēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
pepoithēsian“confidence”objectaccusative singular2×
2 Corinthians 3:4Pepoithēsian de toioutan echanō dia tou Christou …Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.
Philippians 3:4kaiper mis echarōntos pepoithēsian kai en sarka. Ei tinos dokatō …though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has …
pepoithēsia“confidence”to, fordative singular4×
2 Corinthians 1:15“confidence”Kai houta ta pepoithēsia boulome proterem pros vin erchara, hina …Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might …
2 Corinthians 8:22… spoudaion arōnton, nuni de pollem spoudaioteron pepoithēsia polla ta eis vin.… even more so by his great confidence in you.
2 Corinthians 10:2“confidence”… de tem mē pareiarōntos tharrara ta pepoithēsia ha logizomō tolmara epi tinoin toin …… beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh.
Ephesians 3:12… echanō tan parrēsian kai prosagōgan en pepoithēsia dia tau pistiau autou.… enter God’s presence with boldness and confidence.