Word Summary
peithos: persuasive
Original Word: πειθόςTransliteration: peithos
Phonetic Spelling: (pi-thos')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: persuasive
Meaning: persuasive
Strong's Concordance
enticing.
From peitho; persuasive -- enticing.
see GREEK peitho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3981: πειθόςπειθός (
WH πίθος; see Iota),
πειθη,
πειθον, (from
πείθω, like
φειδος from
φείδομαι (cf.
Winers Grammar, 96 (91))),
persuasive:
ἐν πειθοῖς λόγοις,
1 Corinthians 2:4 (cf.
Buttmann, 73). Not found elsewhere (
Winer's Grammar, 24). The Greeks say
πιθανός; as
πιθανοι λόγοι,
Josephus, Antiquities 8, 9, and often in Greek authors See
Passow, under the word,
πιθανός, 1 e.; (Liddell and Scott, ibid. I. 2;
WH's Appendix, p. 153).
STRONGS NT 3981: πίθος [πίθος, see πειθός and cf. Iota.]