Śabda No. 4
It means faith.
“Each person consists of faith; whatever their faith is, that is who they are.”
Śraddhā means faith. The Gītā goes further: each person is made of faith, and whatever their faith is, that is who they are.
Arjuna asked his. Samvāda answers yours with the Gītā's own verses.
Samvāda is software, an AI companion tuned to the Bhagavad Gītā. It is not a person. It answers from the verse and shows you which one, and it never pretends to be Kṛṣṇa.
सत्त्वानुरूपा सर्वस्य श्रद्धा भवति भारत।श्रद्धामयोऽयं पुरुषो यो यच्छ्रद्धः स एव सः।।
sattvānurūpā sarvasya śraddhā bhavati bhārata śraddhā-mayo ‘yaṁ puruṣo yo yac-cchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ
O Arjuna, the faith of everyone is in accordance with their inner organ (Antahkarana). Each person consists of faith; whatever their faith is, that is who they are.
17.3 is verse 597 of 700, and verse 3 of 28 in chapter 17.
Śraddhā (faith; aśraddhā not counted), in any form, appears in 14 verses of the 700, first at 3.31 and last at 18.71.
Śraddhā (faith; aśraddhā not counted), in any form, comes 3 times in 17.3.
Counted by Vāṇi on the 700-verse text at getvani.app/gita.
Chapter 17 asks what a person's faith is made of. 17.2 says that the faith of embodied beings is threefold, born of their own nature and made of sattva, rajas and tamas. 17.3 then says that everyone's faith follows their inner makeup: each person is made of faith, and whatever their faith is, that is who they are. 17.4 shows what that looks like: sattvic people worship the gods, rajasic people worship yakṣas and rākṣasas, and the others, the tamasic, worship the departed and hosts of spirits. So śraddhā is more than belief on request. It is the direction in which a person's whole nature leans, and the Gītā reads a person by what they trust. See chapter 17, what the Gītā says about faith and what the Gītā says about the self.