Strong G545ἀπειθής

disobedient

Transliteration
apeithēs
Pronunciation
ap-i-thace'
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From G1 (as a negative particle) and G3982; unpersuadable that is contumacious: - disobedient.

Detailed definition

ἀπειθής, -ές
(πείθομαι), [in LXX for מַרְאָה, מְרִיא, סָרַר;]
disobedient: absol., Luk.1:17, Tit.1:16 3:3; with dative, Act.26:19, Rom.1:30, 2Ti.3:2.†
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In the Bible

Strong G545 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • disobedient6

First verses

  1. Luke 1:17
    And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
  2. Acts 26:19
    Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
  3. Romans 1:30
    Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
  4. 2 Timothy 3:2
    For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
  5. Titus 1:16
    They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
  6. Titus 3:3
    For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπειθής, ές,
disobedient, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 45; ἀ. τοῖς νόμοις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 936b)]; of ships, τοῖς κυβερνήταις ἀπειθεστέρας τὰς ναῦς παρεῖχον less obedient to them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.84, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.29 (_comparative_), 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 247; στράτευμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 3.6)]; of horses, [Refs ([prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 1.3)]; ἀπειθέα τεύχειν work disobedience, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 66)]. adverb ἀπειθῶς, ἔχειν πρός τινα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 391b.)]
b unbelieving, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 8.306.)]
2 of things, inflexible, rigid, κέντρον[Refs 1st c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 1.55; σιδήρου καὶ ἀδάμαντος ἀπειθέστεροι 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.87; ὀδόντες ἀ.)]unyielding, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.511)]; χῶρος ἀ. impracticable, of Hades, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.3; δίκη ἀ. Νεμέσεως “IG” 4.444.)]
II active, not persuasive, incredible, μῦθος[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1235)]; uninviting, πρὸς τὴν γεῦσιν[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Hicesius Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.87b, c; τὴν γεῦσιν [prev. author] 323a)]; of places, difficult of access, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Fragmenta” 120.)]