πειθός, ή, όν, = πιθανός, [1Co 2:4].
πῐθᾰν-ός, ή, όν,
(πείθω)
of persons, persuasive, plausible, esp. of popular speakers, πιθανώτατος τοῖς πολλοῖς Th. 6.35; τῷ δήμῳ παρὰ πολὺ.. -ώτατος, of Cleon, Id. 3.36, cf. 4.21; ἐν ὄχλῳ π. Pl. Grg. 458e; -ώτατος πάντων ἀνθρώπων D. 37.48; -ώτεροι οἱ ἀπαίδευτοι τῶν πεπαιδευμένων ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις Arist. Rh. 1395b27; -ώτατοι οἱ ἐν τοῖς πάθεσιν Id. Po. 1455a30; π. καὶ πανοῦργος Plu. 2.26a; π. συνταγματάρχης Luc. Bacch. 2: c. inf., -ώτατοι λέγειν Pl. Grg. 479c; π. περιβαλεῖν τινα κακῷ apt at.., E. Or. 906; πιθανώτατος στρατηγῆσαί τε καὶ προσαγαγέσθαι App. Hisp. 15, etc.: with a Pr, π. ἐς στρατηγίαν, ἐς ἐνέδρας, Id. Mith. 51, Pun. 108, etc.
2. of arguments, plausible, Ar. Th. 464 (lyr.); λέγων πιθανώτατ’ Id. Eq. 629; λόγος, φωναὶ π., Pl. Phd. 88d, R. 568c; λόγοι θαυμασίως ὡς π. D. 35.16; τὸ περὶ λόγους π., = πιθανότης, Pl. Tht. 178e: freq. in Arist. Rh., as 1356b26, 1403b20; μόνον ἐφρόντισαν τοῦ π. τοῦ πρὸς αὑτούς Id. Metaph. 1000a10.
3. of manners, winning, plausible, τὸ -ώτατον ἦθος X. Mem. 3.10.3; τὸ π. ἰσχὺν τῆς ἀληθείας ἔχει μείζω Men. 622 codd. Stob.; οὐ π. ἔσχεν ὄχλῳ τὸ ἦθος Plu. Phoc. 3.
4. of reports, etc., plausible, specious, credible, λόγος πιθανώτατος Hdt. 1.214, cf. 2.123; π. τινί Pl. Lg. 677a: c. inf., πιστεύεσθαι πιθανά ib. 782d; πιθανόν [ἐστι ] c. inf., it is probable that.., Arist. Top. 151a29.
5. of works of art, producing illusion, true to nature, X. Mem. 3.10.7 (Comp.).
II Pass., easy to persuade, credulous, A. Ag. 485 (lyr.), Pl. Grg. 493a.
2. obedient, docile, X. Cyr. 2.2.10, Oec. 13.9 (Comp.).
III Adv. - νῶς persuasively, plausibly, Ar. Th. 268, Pl. Phdr. 269c, al.: Comp. -ώτερον Id. Phd. 63b, Grg. 456c, Arist. EN 1096b5.
G3981 — πειθός
(WH πίθος; see Iota), πειθη, πειθον, (from πείθω, like φειδος from φείδομαι (cf. Winers Grammar, 96 (91))), persuasive: ἐν πειθοῖς λόγοις, [1Co 2:4] (cf. Buttmann, 73). Not found elsewhere (Winer's Grammar, 24). The Greeks say πιθανός; as πιθανοι λόγοι, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 9, and often in Greek authors See Passow, under the word, πιθανός, 1 e.; (Liddell and Scott, ibid. I. 2; WH's Appendix, p. 153).