Word study

Convinced

1 Hebrew and 5 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “convinced”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “convinced” or one of its forms.

Compare the Greek words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • יָדַע yâdaknowtranslated this way 1 time of its 914 uses · Strong’s H3045Verb  ·  Translated: know 453, known 53, knows 48, knew 38

    2 Samuel 3:37 So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • πείθω peíthōI persuade, urgetranslated this way 10 times of its 50 uses · Strong’s G3982Verb  ·  Translated: convinced 10, confident 6, persuaded 4, trusted 2

    Luke 20:6 But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

    Acts 28:24 Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

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  • δοκέω dokéōI think, seem, appear, it seemstranslated this way 1 time of its 62 uses · Strong’s G1380Verb  ·  Translated: think 17, thinks 6, thought 5, seems 4

    Acts 26:9 So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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  • πληροφορέω plērophoréōI carry out fully, fully convincetranslated this way 1 time of its 6 uses · Strong’s G4135Verb  ·  Translated: fulfilled 1, fully persuaded 1, fully convinced 1, fully assured 1

    Romans 14:5 One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

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  • εἴδω eídōI know, remembertranslated this way 1 time of its 317 uses · Strong’s G1492Verb  ·  Translated: know 218, knew 20, knows 16, knowing 14

    Romans 14:14 I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.

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  • κρίνω krínōI judge, decide, think goodtranslated this way 1 time of its 114 uses · Strong’s G2919Verb  ·  Translated: judge 43, judged 12, judges 7, decided 5

    2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.