Lexical 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.) |
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