Strong's Greek: 545. ἀπειθής (apeithés) -- disobedient

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apeithés: disobedient

Original Word: ἀπειθής, ές
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: apeithés
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-i-thace')
Short Definition: unbelieving, disobedient
Definition: unbelieving, disobedient, who will not be persuaded.

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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 Origin
from alpha (as a neg. prefix) and peithó
Definition
disobedient
NASB Translation
disobedience (1), disobedient (6).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 545: ἀπειθής

ἀπειθής, 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).)

Strong's

disobedient.

From a (as a negative particle) and peitho; unpersuadable, i.e. Contumacious -- disobedient.

see GREEK a

see GREEK peitho