Lexical Summary apistia: unbelief Original Word: ἀπιστίαTransliteration: apistia Phonetic Spelling: (ap-is-tee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: unbelief Meaning: unbelief Strong's Concordance unbelief. From apistos; faithlessness, i.e. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith), or (positively) unfaithfulness (disobedience) -- unbelief. see GREEK apistos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 570: ἀπιστίαἀπιστία, ἀπιστίας, ἡ (from ἄπιστος), want of faith and trust; 1. unfaithfulness, faithlessness (of persons betraying a trust): Romans 3:3 (cf. references under the word ἀπιστέω, 1). 2. want of faith, unbelief: shown in withholding belief in the divine power, Mark 16:14, or in the power and promises of God, Romans 4:20; Hebrews 3:19; in the divine mission of Jesus, Matthew 13:58; Mark 6:6; by opposition to the gospel, 1 Timothy 1:13; with the added notion of obstinacy, Romans 11:20, 23; Hebrews 3:12. contextually, weakness of faith: Matthew 17:20 (where L T Tr WH ὀλιγοπιστίαν); Mark 9:24. (In Greek writings from Hesiod and Herodotus down.) |
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