noun · feminine
apeitheias
Strong’sG543
willful unbelief, obstinacy, disobedience
stem apeithei-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἀπείθεια
(WH, -θία, exc. He 4:6, 11), -ας, ἡ (< ἀπειθής), [in LXX IV Mac 8:9, 18 12:4*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G543 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-i'-thi-ah
disbelief (obstinate and rebellious)
Fromfrom G545;
King Jamesdisobedience, unbelief.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
disobedience, NT+5th c.BC+; later ἀπειθία, ἡ, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apeitheias | apeitheiais |
| object accusative | apeitheian2×ἀπείθειαν | apeitheiain |
| direct address vocative | apeitheiar | apeitheiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apeitheiau4×ἀπειθείας | apeitheiaiu |
| to, for dative | apeitheia1×ἀπειθείᾳ | apeitheiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apeitheia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
apeitheian“disobedience”objectaccusative singular2×
Romans 11:32… gar tos theos toin pantoin eis apeitheian hina toin pantoin elēateia.For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy …
Hebrews 4:6… tois proterem euangelizirantois ouk eiserchala dia apeitheian,… did not enter because of their disobedience,
apeitheiau“disobedience”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
Ephesians 2:2… nun energarōnteu en toi huioi tau apeitheiau;… at work in the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:6… tou theou epi toin huioin tau apeitheiau.… is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 3:6… tou theou epi toin huioin tau apeitheiau;… is coming on the sons of disobedience.
Hebrews 4:11… te aute tinos hupodeigme piptateia tau apeitheiau.… by following the same pattern of disobedience.
apeitheia“disobedience”to, fordative singular1×
Romans 11:30… theo, nun de elēiva ta houtoiu apeitheia,… have now received mercy through their disobedience,