Greek verb · G569
ἀπιστέω
apisteoap-is-teh'-o
to disbelieve, be faithless; = ἀπειθέω (Hdt.
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: apistéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G569is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G569
to be unbelieving, i.e. (transitively) disbelieve, or (by implication) disobey
The King James renders it: believe not.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
apisteo is rendered "to disbelieve, be faithless; = ἀπειθέω (Hdt.". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to disbelieve, be faithless".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 24:11But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.
Luke 24:11ἠπίστουν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to disbelieve, be faithless, and = ἀπειθέω (Hdt..
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to disbelieve, be faithlessMrk.16:11 | Tagged as
| WhereMark 16:11And when they heard that Jesus was alive and she had seen Him, they did not believe it. |
| = ἀπειθέω (Hdt.on this sense in Ro, 2Ti, ll. with, see Vaughan on Ro, l.with | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἠπίστουν2
- ἀπιστοῦμεν1
- ἀπιστούντων1
- ἀπιστοῦσιν1
- ἠπίστησάν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PAI-1P
- verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-PAP-DPM
- verb · present active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1V-PAP-GPM
Luke
two uses
But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.
- ἠπίστουνepistounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were not believing
While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
- ἀπιστούντωνapistountonverb · present active, participle · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: while are disbelieving
Acts
one use
Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.
- ἠπίστουνepistounverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were disbelieving
Romans
one use
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
- ἠπίστησάνepistesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: disbelieved
2 Timothy
one use
if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- ἀπιστοῦμενapistoumenverb · present active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we are faithless
1 Peter
one use
To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
- ἀπιστοῦσινapistousinverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: disbelieving
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.