1. unbelief, lack of faith — The state or condition of not believing, particularly in the context of failing to trust God or accept the gospel message. In the NT, apistia describes both Israel's historic unbelief (Rom 3:3, 11:20) and the general human failure to believe (Mark 6:6, 9:24). Multilingual evidence is strikingly uniform: Spanish 'incredulidad,' Hindi 'avishvaas' (अविश्वास), Arabic 'adam iimaan' (عدم إيمان), Korean 'bulsin' (불신), and Swahili 'kutokuamini' all express the same concept of non-belief or faithlessness. The two clusters are split only by grammatical case — S62769 (dative/nominative) vs S62770 (accusative/genitive) — with identical semantic content. 11×
AR["عَدَمَ-إِيمَانِهِمْ","عَدَمُ-إيمانِهِم","عَدَمِ إيمانِهِمْ","عَدَمِ-إيمانٍ","عَدَمِ-إيمَانٍ","عَدَمِ-إِيمَانٍ","عَدَمِ-إِيمَانِهِم","عَدَمِ-إِيمَانِي","عَدَمِ-الإيمَانِ"]·ben["অবিশ্বাস","অবিশ্বাসে","অবিশ্বাসে,","অবিশ্বাসে।","অবিশ্বাসের"]·DE["Unglaube"]·EN["of-unbelief","unbelief"]·FR["incrédulité"]·heb["אִי-אֱמוּנָתָם","חֹסֶר-אֱמוּנָה"]·HI["अविशवअस","अविश्वअस-कि","अविश्वास","अविश्वास-का","अविश्वास-में","अविश्वास-से","उनके"]·ID["ketidak-percayaan","ketidak-percayaan,","ketidakpercayaan","ketidakpercayaanku"]·IT["apistia","apistian","apistias","incredulita"]·jav["boten-pitadosipun","kirang-pitados-kawula","mboten-pitados","mboten-pitados,","mboten-pitados.","mboten-pitadosipun","mboten-pracaya","mboten-pracaya,"]·KO["불신","불신앙","불신앙-을","불신앙.","불신에","불신으로","불신을","불신의"]·PT["de-incredulidade","incredulidade","incredulidade,"]·RU["-неверии","неверие","неверием","неверии","неверию","неверия","отломились"]·ES["de-incredulidad","incredulidad"]·SW["kutoamini","kutokuamini","kutokuamini,","kwao","wa-kutoamini"]·TR["imanssızlıklarını","imansızlıkla","imansızlıkları","imansızlıkta","imansızlığı","imansızlığıma","imansızlığın"]·urd["بے-ایمانی","بے-ایمانی-میں","بے-ایمانی-کا","بے-ایمانی-کے","بے-ایمانی۔"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ἀπιστία, Ionic dialect -ίη, ἡ, unbelief, distrust, πίστεις.. δμῶς καὶ ἀπιστίαι ὤλεσαν ἄνδρας beliefs and disbeliefs, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὑπὸ ἀ. μὴ γενέσθαι τι from disbelief that.., Refs; ἀ. πρὸς ἑαυτόν lack of self-confidence, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπιστίαν ἔχειν περί τινος to be in doubt, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς -ίαν τοῦ κατηγόρου to discredit him, Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 of things, τὰ εἰρημένα ἐς ἀ. πολλὴν…