Definition

(actively) disbelieving, i.e. without Christian faith (specially, a heathen); (passively) untrustworthy (person), or incredible (thing)

Etymology

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G4103 (πιστός);

Where the KJV renders it

• that believeth not
• faithless
• incredible thing
• infidel
• unbeliever(-ing)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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