ἐπίστευσεν (episteusen)

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

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Crassus 13.2: ἐν δὲ τοῖς περὶ Κατιλίναν πράγμασι μεγάλοις καὶ μικροῦ δεήσασιν ἀνατρέψαι τὴν Ῥώμην, ἥψατο μέν τις ὑπόνοια τοῦ Κράσσου καὶ προσῆλθεν ἄνθρωπος ὀνομάζων ἀπὸ τῆς συνωμοσίας, οὐδεὶς δὲ ἐπίστευσεν.

New Testament, Romans 4.3: Ἐπίστευσεν δὲ Ἀβραὰμ τῷ θεῷ, καὶ ἐλογίσθη αὐτῷ εἰς δικαιοσύνην.

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.