ἄπιστος
ápistos · G571 · Greek · 23 occurrences
Meanings
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unbelievable, impossible to be believed
(Derivative of ἀπιστέω ‘to not believe,’) Pertaining to not being believable
ExamplesActs 26:8 “Why is it considered incredible among you people if God raises the dead?
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to be unbelieving, to be lacking in trust
(Derivative of ἀπιστέω ‘to not believe (in),’) Pertaining to not believing, with the implication of refusing to believe
ExamplesMatthew 17:17 And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”
Mark 9:19 And He answered them and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”
Luke 9:41 And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
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one who is not a believer, unbeliever
One who does not believe the good news about Jesus Christ
ExamplesMark 9:19 And He answered them and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!”
1 Corinthians 6:6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Corinthians 10:27 If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions, for the sake of conscience.
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non-Christian
A person who does not belong to the group of believers in Christ
Examples1 Corinthians 7:12 But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.
1 Corinthians 7:13 And if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
What it doesIt is the subject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἰσέρχομαιto enter, to go into, to come into 2
- καλέωto call, to name 1
- χωρίζωto separate, to depart, to divorce 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- μετάwith, after 3
- ἐπίon 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νόημαmind 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 4 entries
- Non-Christian11.19
- In 1 Corinthians 7:12, Paul writes, “if any brother has an unbelieving (ápiston) wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her,” classifying the spouse by her standing outside the Christian community.
- One who is not a believer, unbeliever31.106
- In Luke 12:46, Jesus warns that an unfaithful servant's master “will assign him a place with the unbelievers (apístōn),” grouping him among those who never trusted at all.
- Unbelievable, impossible to be believed31.40
- In Acts 26:8, Paul asks King Agrippa, “Why is it considered incredible (ápiston) among you people if God raises the dead?” describing a claim treated as impossible to accept, not a person's disposition.
- To be unbelieving, to be lacking in trust31.98
- In John 20:27, Jesus tells Thomas, “do not continue in disbelief (ápistos), but be a believer,” describing an ongoing inward state of distrust rather than a single act of doubt.
Word family 18 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἄπιστον (πιστός) (from Homer down), without faith or trust; 1. unfaithful, faithless (not…
1. unfaithful, faithless (not to be trusted, perfidious): Lk 12:46; Rev 21:8.
2. incredible, of things: Acts 26:8; (Xenophon, Hiero 1, 9; syrup. 4, 49; Cyril 3, 1, 26; Plato, Phaedr. 245 c.; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 10, 2, etc.).
3. unbelieving, incredulous: of Thomas disbelieving the news of the resurrection of Jesus, Jn 20:27; of those who refuse belief in the gospel, 1 Cor 6:6; 1 Cor 7:12-15; 1 Cor 10:27; 1 Cor 14:22ff; (1 Tim 5:8); with the added idea of impiety and wickedness, 2 Cor 4:4; 2 Cor 6:14f of those among the Christians themselves who reject the true faith, Tit 1:15. without trust (in God), Mt 17:17; Mk 9:19; Lk 9:41.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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