apistos · unbelieving

What it means

apistos (ἄπιστος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “unbelieving”.

Without faith.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who does not believe.
2. Something hard to believe.
3. Someone who cannot be trusted.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• unbelieving ×11
• unbelievers ×7
• unbeliever ×4
• incredible ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×11
• 2 Corinthians×3
• 1 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 17:17

  And Jesus answered and said, “O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

• Mark 9:19

  And he answered them and says, “O unbelieving generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring him to me.”

• Luke 9:41

  And Jesus answered and said, “O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

• Luke 12:46

  the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and put his portion with the unbelieving.

• John 20:27

  Then he says to Thomas, “Bring your finger here and see my hands; and bring your hand and put it into my side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing.”

• Acts 26:8

  Why is it judged incredible among you that God raises the dead?

• 1 Corinthians 6:6

  but brother goes to court against brother, and that before unbelievers?

• 1 Corinthians 7:12

  To the rest I, not the Lord, say: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, he must not send away her.

• 1 Corinthians 7:13

  And if any woman has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not send away her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:15

  But if the unbeliever separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is not enslaved in such cases; but God has called us in peace.

• 1 Corinthians 10:27

  If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, asking no questions because of conscience.

• 1 Corinthians 14:22

  So then, tongues are a sign not for those who believe but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.

• 1 Corinthians 14:23

  If then the whole assembly comes together in the same place and all speak in tongues, and uninstructed people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?

• 1 Corinthians 14:24

  But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in, he is convicted by all, he is examined by all,

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the good news of the glory of the Messiah, who is the image of God.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14

  Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

• 2 Corinthians 6:15

  And what harmony has the Messiah with Beliar? Or what share has a believer with an unbeliever?

• 1 Timothy 5:8

  But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

• Titus 1:15

  All things are clean to the clean; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; rather, both their mind and conscience have been defiled.

• Revelation 21:8

  But as for the cowardly and unbelieving and detestable and murderers and the sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

And 2 more times.