Apeitheia means “disobedience” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H543 — amen (“sure”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G543 ἀπείθεια (apeitheia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apeitheia (ap-ei'-thei-ah) n. 1. disbelief (obstinate and rebellious) [from G545] It has 10 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include unbelief and disobedience. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apeitheia (ap-ei'-thei-ah) n. 1. disbelief (obstinate and rebellious) [from G545] KJV: disobedience, unbelief Root(s): G545
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G543. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
disobedience
Usage: ἀπείθεια (WH, -θία, exc. Heb.11:1-40. with), -ας, ἡ (ἀπειθής), [in LXX 4Ma.8:9 4Mac 8:18 4Mac 12:4 * ;] disobedience (MM, VGT, see word): Rom.11:30, 32, Heb.4:6, 11; υἱοὶ τῆς ἀ. (genitive of definition, see M, Pr., 73 f.), Eph.2:2 5:6, Col.3:6 (T, WH R, mg., omit).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apeitheia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G543 (ἀπείθεια) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
7 indexed usages in New Testament.
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.
Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture, and weigh the threatenings of torment, and shun this vainglory and destructive pride?
seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G543.
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.
Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture, and weigh the threatenings of torment, and shun this vainglory and destructive pride?
seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G543, grouped by book.
Apeitheia (Strong's G543) is a Greek word most simply glossed "disobedience". apeitheia (ap-ei'-thei-ah) n. 1. disbelief (obstinate and rebellious) [from G545]
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G543 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G543 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as unbelief and disobedience. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G543, with linked reader references where each row is available.