ἀπειθής
apeithēs
“disobedient”
Definition
unpersuadable, i.e. contumacious
from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G3982 (πείθω);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
G:A
Greek Adjective
Occurrences
ἀπειθής appears 6 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.
And he will go on before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.