πειθώ

German (Pape)

[Seite 544] όος, zsgzgn οῦς, ἡ, Peitho, die Göttinn der Ueberredung oder Ueberzeugung, s. nom. propr.; die Gabe der Ueberredung, überzeugende Beredtsamkeit, νῦν γὰρ ἀκμάζει πειθὼ δολία Aesch. Ch. 715, μελιγλώσσοις πειθοῦς ἐπαοιδαῖσιν Prom. 172; Soph. El. 552 Tr 658; πειθὼ εἶχον τήνδε, Eur. I. A. 104; πειθώ τινα ζητεῖν, Ueberredungskunst, Ar. Nubb. 1380; auch in Prosa: Thuc. 3, 53; εἴ περ τυγχάνει γε οὖσα καὶ σμικρὰ πειθώ τις περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, Plat. Legg. X, 890 d; πειθ οῦς δημιουργός ἐστιν ἡ ῥητορική, Gorg. 453 a; πειθοῖ καὶ βίᾳ einander entgeggstzt Legg. IV, 722 b; Xen. παρά του πειθοῖ λαβών, Mem. 1, 7, 5; Folgde; πολλοὺς πειθοῖ ποιήσας ὑπηκόους Pol. 2, 1, 7, wie πολλοὺς πειθοῖ καὶ λόγῳ προσηγάγετο 2, 38, 7; Plut. u. a. Sp. Auch Gehorsam, Xen. Cyr. 2, 3, 19 u. A.

French (Bailly abrégé)

όος-οῦς (ἡ) :
I. 1 faculté ou talent de persuader, éloquence persuasive, persuasion;
2 discours propre à persuader, éloquence ; en gén. moyen de persuader;
II. 1 persuasion qu’on a dans l’esprit;
2 docilité, obéissance.
Étymologie: R. Πιθ, v. πείθω.

English (Thayer)

(πείθω) (from the root meaning 'to bind'; allied with πίστις, fides, foedus, etc.; Curtius, § 327; Vanicek, p. 592)); imperfect ἔπειθον; future πείσω; 1st aorist ἐπεισα; 2perfect πέποιθα; pluperfect ἐπεποίθειν (πείθομαι; imperfect ἐπειθομην); perfect πέπεισμαι; 1st aorist ἐπείσθην; 1future πεισθήσομαι (Homer down;
1. Active;
a. to persuade, i. e. to induce one by words to believe: absolutely πείσας μετέστησεν ἱκανόν ὄχλον, τί, to cause belief in a thing (which one sets forth), R G T (cf. Buttmann, 150 (131) n.) (Sophocles O. C. 1442); with the genitive of the thing, ibid. L Tr WH; τινα, one, τινα τί, one of a thing, (Herodotus 1,163; Plato, Apology, p. 37a., 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, to seek to win one, strive to please one, to conciliate by persuasion, T WH omit; Tr brackets αὐτόν); to tranquillize (A. V. assure), τάς καρδίας ἡμῶν, to persuade unto i. e. move or induce one by persuasion to do something: τινα followed by an infinitive (R § 139,46), Xenophon, an. 1,3, 19; Polybius 4,64,2; Diodorus 11,15; 12,39; Josephus, Antiquities 8,10, 3); τινα followed by ἵνα (cf. Winer s Grammar, 338 (317); Buttmann, § 139,40), Plutarch, apoph. Alex. 21).
2. Passive and middle (cf. Winer s Grammar, 253 (238));
a. to be persuaded, to suffer oneself to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: absol, to have faith, τίνι, in a thing, to believe, namely, ὅτι, 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, 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, πέπεισμαι ὅτι, ἐν κυρίῳ added (see ἐν, I:6b.), περί τίνος ὅτι, to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with: τίνι, one, 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, ὅτι, by ὅτι with a preparatory αὐτό τοῦτο (Winer's Grammar, § 23,5), τοῦτο πεποιθώς οἶδα ὅτι, 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.)): ἑαυτῷ followed by an infinitive ἐν τίνι, to trust in, put confidence in a person or thing (cf. Buttmann, as above), ἐν κυρίῳ followed by ὅτι, ἐπί τίνι, L text WH marginal reading; T WH omit; Tr marginal reading brackets the clause); Sept., as ἐπί τινα, L text WH marginal reading ἐπί with the dative (ἐπί τινα followed by ὅτι, εἰς τινα followed by ὅτι, ἀναπείθω.)