Lexical Summary
apeithés: Disobedient, unbelieving
Original Word: ἀπειθής
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: apeithés
Pronunciation: ah-pay-THAYS
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-i-thace')
KJV: disobedient
NASB: disobedient, disobedience
Word Origin: [from G1 (α - Alpha) (as a negative particle) and G3982 (πείθω - persuaded)]
1. unpersuadable, i.e. contumacious
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
disobedient.
From a (as a negative particle) and peitho; unpersuadable, i.e. Contumacious -- disobedient.
see GREEK a
see GREEK peitho
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 545 apeithḗs (an adjective) – literally, unwilling to be persuaded (by God) which shows itself in outward disobedience (outward spiritual rebellion); disobedient because unpersuaded.
545 /apeithḗs ("unpersuaded") begins with the decision to reject what God prefers, with His offer to persuade about His preferred-will (cf. 2307 /thélēma). See 543 (apeitheia).
[Note the root, 3982 /peíthō ("persuade").]
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
alpha (as a neg. prefix) and
peithóDefinitiondisobedient
NASB Translationdisobedience (1), disobedient (6).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 545: ἀπειθήςἀπειθής,
ἀπειθες, genitive
ἀπειθους (
πείθομαι),
impersuasible, uncompliant, contumacious (
A. V. disobedient): absolutely,
Luke 1:17;
Titus 1:16;
Titus 3:3;
τίνι,
2 Timothy 3:2;
Romans 1:30;
Acts 26:19. (
Deuteronomy 21:18;
Numbers 20:10;
Isaiah 30:9;
Zechariah 7:12; in Greek writings from
Thucydides down; (in
Theognis, 1235 actively
not persuasive).)
