Greek noun (feminine) · G570
ἀπιστία
apistiaap-is-tee'-ah
unbelief
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: apistía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G570is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G570
faithlessness, i.e. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith), or (positively) unfaithfulness (disobedience)
The King James renders it: unbelief.
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
apistia is rendered "unbelief". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Romans, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 13:58And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
Matthew 13:58ἀπιστίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's ten uses are in Romans.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- unbelief7
- in unbelief1
- of unbelief1
- through unbelief1
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 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- ἀπιστίᾳ4
- ἀπιστίαν2
- ἀπιστία1
- ἀπιστίᾳ.¶1
- ἀπιστίαν.¶1
- ἀπιστίας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular5N-DSF
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular3N-ASF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
one use
And He did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
- ἀπιστίανapistiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
Mark
two uses
And He was amazed at their unbelief. And He went around from village to village, teaching the people.
- ἀπιστίανapistiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
- ἀπιστίᾳ.¶apistianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
Romans
four uses
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
- ἀπιστίαapistianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
- ἀπιστίᾳapistianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: through unbelief
That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
- ἀπιστίᾳapistianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
- ἀπιστίᾳapistianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: in unbelief
1 Timothy
one use
I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.
- ἀπιστίᾳapistianoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
Hebrews
two uses
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- ἀπιστίαςapistiasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: of unbelief
So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.
- ἀπιστίαν.¶apistiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: unbelief
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.