πιστοὶ (pistoi) in Revelation 22:6: Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine

Adjective: the form evaluates the revealed words as reliable or trustworthy.

Not applicable: an adjective has no tense or verbal aspect.

Not applicable: the word describes a quality and does not encode active or passive voice.

Not applicable: the assertion depends on the verbless predicate construction, not verbal mood.

Not applicable: the adjective agrees with words rather than marking a speaker or addressee.

Nominative: agrees with οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι and functions as a predicate description of these words.

Plural: matches λόγοι, words, so the reliability claim covers the words collectively in view.

Masculine: agrees grammatically with the masculine noun λόγοι and says nothing about biological sex.

The adjective follows the subject οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι and is coordinated with ἀληθινοί, true, as a paired predicate description.

The angel's confirming declaration before the verse names the Lord who sent his angel to show what must soon take place.

It affirms that the words in view can be relied upon.

It does not portray the words as people who believe, define the scope of these words apart from context, or carry a complete doctrine of Scripture alone.

High: The adjective affirms the dependability of the revealed words at the book's closing confirmation.

Plural predicate adjective of reliability. describes these words as worthy of trust. Attached to οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι and coordinated with ἀληθινοί. Governed by the angel's declaration in Revelation 22:6. The inanimate noun determines the objective trustworthy sense of πιστός.

Can the words affirmed at Revelation's close be relied upon? Yes. The angel describes these words as trustworthy and true, grounded in the Lord who sent the message.

Direct: The predicate adjective directly supports faithful, with trustworthy clarifying its objective sense in English.

Faithful can describe a believing person in other contexts, but words cannot exercise personal belief here. The demonstrative these requires context to identify the precise verbal scope. The adjective contributes to a reliability claim whose theological ground is supplied by the whole sentence.

Faithful means the words believe: The subject is inanimate, selecting the sense reliable or worthy of trust. masculine form adds male imagery: Gender simply agrees with the masculine noun λόγοι. one adjective proves every bibliological conclusion: Let the paired adjective, immediate referent, sending Lord, and wider canon establish the claim's scope.

Revelation 22:6 states Οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι πιστοὶ καὶ ἀληθινοί, tagging πιστοὶ A-NPM.

The lemma πιστός can describe one who believes or something worthy of trust. Its inanimate subject words selects the reliability sense here.

Agreement attaches the adjective to λόγοι, the predicate position makes an assertion about them, and coordination with true reinforces an objective evaluation rather than a believing action.

At the book's close, the angel confirms that the revealed words are dependable and true because the Lord has sent the message about what must take place.

The claim supports faithful hearing, keeping, and hope in Revelation's final exhortations while remaining rooted in the God who sends and speaks.

Translate the sense as trustworthy if faithful might sound like an act of belief, and keep the adjective paired with true.

Do not assign personal faith to the words or make adjective agreement alone establish every larger claim about inspiration.