Lexicon apeitheia: disobedience Original Word: ἀπείθεια, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apeitheia Phonetic Spelling: (ap-i'-thi-ah) Short Definition: willful unbelief, obstinacy, disobedience Definition: willful unbelief, obstinacy, disobedience. HELPS word-Studies 543 apeítheia(from 1 /A "not" and 3982 /peíthō, "persuaded") – properly, someone not persuaded, referring to their willful unbelief, i.e. the refusal to be convinced by God's voice. This is the core-meaning of the entire word-family: 543 (apeítheia), 544 (apeithéō), 545 (apeithḗs). All these cognates focus on man's decision to reject God's offers of faith, i.e. refusal to be persuaded in their heart concerning obeying His will (Word). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apeithésDefinitiondisobedience NASB Translationdisobedience (6).
Thayer's 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.)
Strong's disobedience, unbelief. From apeithes; disbelief (obstinate and rebellious) -- disobedience, unbelief. see GREEK apeithes |
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