| 1. to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place
confidence in 1) of the thing believed 1a1. to credit, have confidence 2) in a moral or religious reference 1b1. used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul 1b2. to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith 1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith 2. to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity 1) to be intrusted with a thing |