Apistia means “unbelief” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H570 — emesh (“former time”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G570 ἀπιστία (apistia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apistia (ap-is-tee'-ah) n. 1. faithlessness 2. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith) It has 13 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include faith. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apistia (ap-is-tee'-ah) n. 1. faithlessness 2. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith) 3. (positively) unfaithfulness (disobedience) [from G571] KJV: unbelief Root(s): G571
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G570. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
unbelief
Usage: ἀπιστία, -ας, ἡ (ἄπιστος), [in LXX: Wis.14:25, 4Ma.12:4 * ;] want of faith, unbelief: Mat.13:58, Mrk.6:6 9:24 16:14, Rom.3:3 (but see: ἀπιστέω) Rom.4:20 11:20, 23, 1Ti.1:13, Heb.3:12, 19 (DCG, ii, 775a; Cremer, 492).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apistia, 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 G570 (ἀπιστία) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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12 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
So that there reigned in all men without exception, blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, Corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G570.
And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
So that there reigned in all men without exception, blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, Corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G570, grouped by book.
Apistia (Strong's G570) is a Greek word most simply glossed "unbelief". apistia (ap-is-tee'-ah) n. 1. faithlessness 2. (negatively) disbelief (lack of Christian faith)
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's G570 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G570 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as faith. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G570, with linked reader references where each row is available.