πιστικός
pistikós · G4101 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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pure
Pertaining to being pure, with the possible implication of a quality which can be trusted
ExamplesMark 14:3 While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the Leper, He was reclining at the table, and a woman came with an alabaster vial of very expensive perfume of pure nard. She broke the vial and poured the perfume over His head.
John 12:3 Mary then took a pound of very expensive perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
How it’s used
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Near synonyms 1 word
- γνήσιος gnḗsios · G1103 · genuine, real
- Greek adjective meaning 'genuine, authentic, legitimate' in the sense of being truly what it claims to be; overlaps with πιστικός in denoting authenticity and genuineness, though γνήσιος more commonly applies to persons and relationships while πιστικός applies to material substances
In the other Testament 2 words
- תָּמִים tâmîym · H8549 · whole, complete, full
- Hebrew adjective describing something unmixed, pure, or unadulterated, especially in contexts of ritual purity or moral integrity; shares the semantic overlap of 'genuine/unadulterated' with πιστικός though תָּמִים has broader application to moral completeness
- זַךְ zak · H2134 · pure, pure > innocent
- Hebrew adjective describing physical purity or clarity, often used of liquids (oil, wine) being unmixed or pure; closely parallels πιστικός in the sense of 'genuine, unadulterated' especially in material substance contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πιστικη, πιστικον (πιστός), pertaining to belief; a. having the power of persuading,…
a. having the power of persuading, skillful in producing belief: Plato, Gorgias, p. 455 a. b. trusty, faithful, that can be relied on: γυνή πιστικη καί οἰκουρός καί πειθομενη τῷ ἀνδρί, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 32; often so in Cedrenus (also (of persons) in Epiphanius, John Moschus, Sophronius of Damascus; cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word); of commodities equivalent to δόκιμος, genuine, pure, unadulterated: so νάρδος πιστικη (but A. V. spike-(i. e. spiked) nard, after thenardispicati of the Vulg. (in Mark)), Mk 14:3; Jn 12:3 (for nard was often adulterated; see Pliny, h. n. 12,26; Dioscorides (?) de mater. med. 1, 6 and 7); hence, metaphorically, τό πιστικον τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης κρᾶμα, Eusebius, dem. evang. 9, 8 (p. 439 d.). Cf. the full discussion of this word in Fritzsche on Mark, p. 596ff; Lücke on Jn 12:3, p. 494ff; Winer's Grammar, 97f (92f); (especially Dr. James Morison on Mark, the passage cited).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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