Disbelieve <1,,569, apisteo>
"to be unbelieving" (a, negative, pistis, "faith;" cp. apistos, "unbelieving"), is translated "believed not," etc., in the AV (except in 1Pe 2:7, "be disobedient"); "disbelieve" (or "disbelieved") in the RV, in Mar 1:16,16, Luk 1:24,41, Act 28:24; "disbelieve" is the best rendering, implying that the unbeliever has had a full opportunity of believing and has rejected it; some mss. have apeitheo, "to be disobedient," in 1Pe 2:7, Rom 3:3, RV, "were without faith;" 2Ti 2:13, RV, "are faithless. Cp. DISOBEDIENT, C. SEE BELIEVE.
