apeitheia · disobedience

What it means

apeitheia (ἀπείθεια) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “disobedience”.

Refusing to obey or to believe.

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. Refusing to heed or to believe.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Romans×2
• Ephesians×2
• Colossians×1
• Hebrews×2

• Romans 11:30

  For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

• Romans 11:32

  For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that he may have mercy on all.

• Ephesians 2:2

  in which you once walked, according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience;

• Ephesians 5:6

  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

• Colossians 3:6

  because of which things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

• Hebrews 4:6

  Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly had the good news announced to them did not enter because of disobedience,

• Hebrews 4:11

  Let us make every effort, then, to enter into that rest, so that no one may fall by the same example of disobedience.