Greek adjective · G571
ἄπιστος
apistosap'-is-tos
unbelieving
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ápistos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G571is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G571
(actively) disbelieving, i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing)
The King James renders it: that believeth not, faithless, incredible thing, infidel, unbeliever(-ing).
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
apistos is rendered "unbelieving". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across ten books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 17:17“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
Matthew 17:17ἄπιστος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's twenty-three uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- unbelieving13
- unbelievers3
- unbeliever2
- an unbeliever1
- incredible1
- than an unbeliever1
- to unbelieving1
- with unbelievers1
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 23, 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
- ἄπιστος8
- ἀπίστοις5
- ἀπίστων4
- ἄπιστον3
- ἀπίστου2
- ἄπιστοι1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural5A-DPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural4A-GPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular4A-NSM
- adjective · vocative (address) · feminine singular3A-VSF
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2A-GSM
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular1A-ASF
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular1A-ASM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1A-NPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1A-NSF
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
Matthew
one use
“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: unbelieving
Mark
one use
“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: unbelieving
Luke
two uses
“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · vocative (address) · feminine singulartagged: unbelieving
The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate. Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
- ἀπίστωνapistonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelievers
John
one use
Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: unbelieving
Acts
one use
Why would any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?
- ἄπιστονapistonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: incredible
1 Corinthians
eleven uses
Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!
- ἀπίστωνapistonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelievers
To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
- ἄπιστονapistonadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: unbelieving
And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.
- ἄπιστονapistonadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: unbelieving
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: unbelieving
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: unbelieving
But if the unbeliever leaves, let him go. The believing brother or sister is not bound in such cases. God has called you to live in peace.
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: unbeliever
If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat anything set before you without raising questions of conscience.
- ἀπίστωνapistonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelieving
Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for believers, not for unbelievers.
- ἀπίστοιςapistoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelieving
- ἀπίστοιςapistoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelieving
So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and some who are uninstructed or some unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
- ἄπιστοιapistoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelievers
But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,
- ἄπιστοςapistosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: unbeliever
2 Corinthians
three uses
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- ἀπίστωνapistonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelieving
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- ἀπίστοιςapistoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: with unbelievers
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
- ἀπίστουapistouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: an unbeliever
1 Timothy
one use
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- ἀπίστουapistouadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: than an unbeliever
Titus
one use
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
- ἀπίστοιςapistoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: unbelieving
Revelation
one use
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- ἀπίστοιςapistoisadjective · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: to unbelieving
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.