Apisteo means “believe not” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H569 — amraphel in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G569 ἀπιστέω (apisteo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apisteo (ap-is-teh'-o) v. 1. to be unbelieving 2. (transitively) disbelieve It has 12 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include believe. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apisteo (ap-is-teh'-o) v. 1. to be unbelieving 2. (transitively) disbelieve 3. (by implication) disobey [from G571] KJV: believe not Root(s): G571
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to disbelieve
Usage: ἀπιστέω, -ῶ (ἄπιστος), [in LXX: Wis.1:2 10:7 12:17 18:13, Sir.1:27, 2Ma.8:13 * ;] __1. to disbelieve, be faithless: Mrk.16:11, 16, Luk.24:11, 41, Act.28:24, 1Pe.2:7; so prob. also Rom.3:3, 2Ti.2:13 (ICC, CGT, in ll; MM, see word). __2. = ἀπειθέω (Hdt.; on this sense in Ro, 2Ti, ll. with, see Vaughan on Ro, l.with; Lft., Notes, 265; Thayer, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apisteo, 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 G569 (ἀπιστέω) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
they that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of God, fled, and conveyed themselves away.
For he will be found of them that tempt him not; And showeth himself unto such as do not distrust him.
Of whose wickedness, even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, And plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: And a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G569.
And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
they that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of God, fled, and conveyed themselves away.
For he will be found of them that tempt him not; And showeth himself unto such as do not distrust him.
Of whose wickedness, even to this day the waste land that smoketh is a testimony, And plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: And a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.
For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, thou showest thy strength, And among them that know it thou makest their boldness manifest.
For whereas they would not believe anything by reason of the enchantments; Upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G569, grouped by book.
Apisteo (Strong's G569) is a Greek word most simply glossed "believe not". apisteo (ap-is-teh'-o) v. 1. to be unbelieving 2. (transitively) disbelieve
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G569 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G569 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as believe. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G569, with linked reader references where each row is available.