πείθω

πείθω — peíthō

Πειθώ, Πειθους, ἡ,

1. Peitho, proper name of a goddess, literally, Persuasion; LatinSuada orSuadela.

2. persuasive power, persuasion: 1Co 2:4 ἐν πειθοι — accusative to certain inferior authorities. (On the word, see Müller's note on Josephus, contra Apion 2, 21, 3. (Hesiod, Herodotus, others.))

STRONGS NT 3982: πείθωπείθω ((from the root meaning 'to bind'; allied with πίστις, fides, foedus, etc.; Curtius, § 327; Vanicek, p. 592)); imperfect ἔπειθον; future πείσω; 1 aorist ἐπεισα; 2 perfect πέποιθα; pluperfect ἐπεποίθειν (Luk 11:22); passive (or middle, present πείθομαι; imperfect ἐπειθομην); perfect πέπεισμαι; 1 aorist ἐπείσθην; 1 future πεισθήσομαι (Luk 16:31); from Homer down;

1. Active;

a. to persuade, i. e. to induce one by words to believe: absolutely πείσας μετέστησεν ἱκανόν ὄχλον, Act 19:26; τί, to cause belief in a thing (which one sets forth), Act 19:8 R G T (cf. Buttmann, 150 (131) n.) (Sophocles O. C. 1442); with the genitive of the thing, ibid. L Tr WH; τινα, one, Act 18:4; τινα τί, one of a thing, Act 28:23 Rec. (Herodotus 1, 163; Plato, Apology, p. 37 a., and elsewhere; (cf. Buttmann, as above)); τινα περί τίνος, concerning a thing, ibid. G L T Tr WH.

b. as in classical Greek from Homer down, with an accusative of a person, to make friends of, win one's favor, gain one's good-will, Act 12:20; or to seek to win one, strive to please one, 2Co 5:11; Gal 1:10; to conciliate by persuasion, Mat 28:14 (here T WH omit; Tr brackets αὐτόν); Act 14:19; equivalent to to tranquillize (A. V. assure), τάς καρδίας ἡμῶν, 1Jn 3:19.

c. to persuade unto i. e. move or induce one by persuasion to do something: τινα followed by an infinitive (R § 139, 46), Act 13:43; Act 26:28 (Xenophon, an. 1, 3, 19; Polybius 4, 64,2; Diodorus 11, 15; 12, 39; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 10, 3); τινα followed by ἵνα (cf. Winers Grammar, 338 (317); Buttmann, § 139, 40), Mat 27:20 (Plutarch, apoph. Alex. 21).

2. Passive and middle (cf. Winers Grammar, 253 (238));

a. to be persuaded, to suffer oneself to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: absol, Luk 16:31; Act 17:4; to have faith, Heb 11:13 Rec.; τίνι, in a thing, Act 28:24; to believe, namely, ὅτι, Heb 13:18 L T Tr WH. πέπεισμαι τί (on the neuter accusative cf. Buttmann, § 131, 10) περί τίνος (genitive of person), to be persuaded (of) a thing concerning a person, Heb 6:9 (A. V. we are persuaded better things of you, etc.); πεπεισμένος εἰμί, to have persuaded oneself, and πείθομαι, to believe (cf. English to be persuaded), followed by an accusative with an infinitive, Luk 20:6; Act 26:26; πέπεισμαι ὅτι, Rom 8:38; 2Ti 1:5; 2Ti 1:12; with ἐν κυρίῳ added (see ἐν, I. 6 b.), Rom 14:14; περί τίνος ὅτι, Rom 15:14.

b. to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with: τίνι, one, Acts 5:36f, 39;; Rom 2:8; Gal 3:1 Rec.;; Heb 13:17; Jas 3:3.

3. 2 perfect πέποιθα (the Sept. mostly for בָּטַח, also for חָסָה, נִשְׁעַן Niphal of the unused שָׁעַן), intransitive, to trust, have confidence, be confident: followed by an accusative with an infinitive, Rom 2:19; by ὅτι, Heb 13:18 Rec.; by ὅτι with a preparatory αὐτό τοῦτο (Winer's Grammar, § 23, 5), Php 1:6; τοῦτο πεποιθώς οἶδα ὅτι, Php 1:25; πέποιθα with a dative of the person or the thing in which the confidence reposes (so in classical Greek (on its construction in the N. T. see Buttmann, § 133, 5; Winer's Grammar, 214 (201); § 33, d.)): Php 1:14; Phm 1:21 (2Ki 17:20; Pro 14:16; Pro 26:26; Isa 28:17; Sir. 35:24 (Sir 32:24); Wis 14:29); ἑαυτῷ followed by an infinitive 2Co 10:7; ἐν τίνι, to trust in, put confidence in a person or thing (cf. Buttmann, as above), Php 3:3-4; ἐν κυρίῳ followed by ὅτι, Php 2:24; ἐπί τίνι, Mat 27:43 L text WH marginal reading; Mar 10:24 (where T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); Luk 11:22; Luk 18:9; 2Co 1:9; Heb 2:13 (and very often in the Sept., as Deu 28:52; 2Ch 14:11; Psalm 2:13; Pro 3:5; Isa 8:17; Isa 31:1); ἐπί τινα, Mat 27:43 where L text WH marginal reading ἐπί with the dative (Isa 36:5; Hab 2:18; 2Ch 16:7 f, etc.); ἐπί τινα followed by ὅτι, 2Co 2:3; 2Th 3:4; εἰς τινα followed by ὅτι, Gal 5:10. (Compare: ἀναπείθω.)