Word Summary
apeitheia: disobedience
Original Word: ἀπείθειαTransliteration: apeitheia
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-i'-thi-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: disobedience
Meaning: disobedience
Strong's Concordance
disobedience, unbelief.
From apeithes; disbelief (obstinate and rebellious) -- disobedience, unbelief.
see GREEK apeithes
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 543: ἀπείθειαἀπείθεια (
WH ἀπειθια, except in Heb. as below (see Iota)),
ἀπειθας,
ἡ (
ἀπειθής),
disobedience (
Jerome,
inobedientia),
obstinacy, and in the N. T. particularly
obstinate opposition to the divine will:
Romans 11:30, 32;
Hebrews 4:6, 11;
υἱοί τῆς ἀπειθείας, those who are animated by this obstinacy (see
υἱός, 2), used of the Gentiles:
Ephesians 2:2;
Ephesians 5:6;
Colossians 3:6 (
R G L brackets). (
Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 5;
Plutarch, others.)