ἐπίστευεν (episteuen)

ἐπίστευεν is an Ancient Greek form of πιστεύω, meaning “trust, believe”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 27.7: … ων, περὶ Φιδεντίαν ἑκκαίδεκα σπείραις πρὸς πεντήκοντα τῶν πολεμίων ἀντιταχθεὶς τῇ μὲν προθυμίᾳ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐπίστευεν, ἀνόπλους δὲ τοὺς πολλοὺς ἔχων ὤκνει. βουλευομένου δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ διαμέλλοντος, ἀπὸ τοῦ πλησίον πεδίου λειμῶνα …

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 19.3: … ς δ’ οὖν πῶς ἐβουλεύσω περὶ τῶν κτημάτων; Εἰς τὸ φανερὸν μὲν ἕκαστον αὐτῶν κληρονόμον ἀπολιπεῖν ἔφασκον, ὁ δ’ ἐπίστευέν τε ἂν καὶ κολακευτικώτερον παρεσκεύαζεν αὑτόν, ἄλλας δὲ τὰς ἀληθεῖς διαθήκας ἐκείνας ἔχων κατέλιπον οἰμώζειν …

All forms of πιστεύω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.