noun · feminine
oligopistias
Strong’sG570
littleness of faith
stem oligopisti-once in the New Testament1 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.
*† ὀλιγοπιστία, -ας, ἡ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G570 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-is-tee'-ah
faithlessness, i.e. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith), or (positively) unfaithfulness (disobedience)
Fromfrom G571;
King Jamesunbelief.
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
Ionic dialect -ίη, ἡ, unbelief, distrust, πίστεις.. δμῶς καὶ ἀπιστίαι ὤλεσαν ἄνδρας beliefs and disbeliefs, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὑπὸ ἀ. μὴ γενέσθαι τι from disbelief that.., Refs; ἀ. πρὸς ἑαυτόν lack of self-confidence, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπιστίαν ἔχειν περί τινος to be in doubt, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς -ίαν τοῦ κατηγόρου to discredit him, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 of things, τὰ εἰρημένα ἐς ἀ. πολλὴν ἀπῖκταιRefs 5th c.BC+; πολλὰς ἀπιστίας ἔχει it admits of many doubts, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀτοπία καὶ ἀπιστία incredibility, Refs 5th c.BC+
II want of faith, faithlessness, θνήσκει δὲ πίστις βλαστάνει δ᾽ ἀ.Refs 5th c.BC+; treachery, Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | oligopistias | oligopistiais |
| object accusative | oligopistian1×ὀλιγοπιστίαν | oligopistiain |
| direct address vocative | oligopistiar | oligopistiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | oligopistiau | oligopistiaiu |
| to, for dative | oligopistia | oligopistiai |
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
oligopistia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
oligopistian“little faith”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 17:20tos de legatō autoi; Dia tan oligopistian vu; amēn gar legamō vi, ean …“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell …