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Greek

569. apisteo -- to disbelieve, be faithless
... to disbelieve, be faithless. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apisteo Phonetic
Spelling: (ap-is-teh'-o) Short Definition: I am unfaithful, I disbelieve ...
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4203. porneuo -- to commit fornication
... Cognate: 4203 -- commit fornication (sexual immorality); (figuratively) to be
unfaithful to Christ, while as His true follower. See 4202 (). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4604. maal -- an unfaithful or treacherous act
... 4603, 4604. maal. 4605 . an unfaithful or treacherous act. Transliteration:
maal Phonetic Spelling: (mah'-al) Short Definition: unfaithfully. ...
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4603. maal -- to act unfaithfully or treacherously
... Word Usage act (1), acted (2), acted treacherously (2), acting (1), acting
treacherously (1), acting unfaithfully (1), acts (2), became...unfaithful (1), been ...
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2181. zanah -- to commit fornication, be a harlot
... 1), play the harlot (18), play the harlot continually (1), played the harlot (24),
playing the harlot (3), plays the harlot (1), prostitute (1), unfaithful (1 ...
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898. bagad -- to act or deal treacherously
... to pillage -- deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-
or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), X very. ...
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Library

Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine of Truth ...
... Chapter XXVII."Granted that the Apostles Transmitted the Whole Doctrine of Truth,
May Not the Churches Have Been Unfaithful in Handing It On? ...
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Psalm CI.
... in your heart ye have a good repose, or in the Church herself proceed on a good
journey in the way of godliness; ye ought not to hate those unfaithful only who ...
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Application of these Motives
... of God for his Church, and all that Christ hath done and suffered for it, will rise
up in judgment against us, if we be negligent and unfaithful, and condemn us ...
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Self-Scrutiny in God's Presence.
... will revolt more and more." This outflow of holy displeasure would prepare us to
expect an everlasting reprobacy of the rebellious and unfaithful Church, but ...
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Will the Knowledge that Some of Our Own are Lost, Mar Our ...
... own happiness. Again, a husband banishes from his presence an unfaithful
wife, whom he had formerly loved as his own life. While ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/chapter xii will the knowledge.htm

The Promises of the Christian Home.
... He promises to punish the unfaithful parent, and to reward the faithful parent. ... We
have divine promises to punish the unfaithful members of the Christian home. ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxv the promises of.htm

The Unknown Giver and the Misused Gifts
... we should have been so guilty, that we should have persevered in sin so many years,
that even after we have known God we should have been so unfaithful to him ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 38 1892/the unknown giver and the.htm

Malachi
... as the God of justice, are assured by the prophet that the Lord, preceded by a
messenger, is on His way; and He will punish, first the unfaithful priests, and ...
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An Evening on the Mount of Olives.
... "Watch, therefore," He said, "for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come," and
He told them of the faithful and the unfaithful servants; that the one was ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxxviii an evening on.htm

(Of Accusations against Doctors. )
... The faithful man acts always in faith; and the unfaithful man plots cunningly, and
strives to work the ruin of those who are faithful, and who live in piety ...
/.../unknown/the decretals/ii of accusations against doctors.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant.

2. (a.) Not possessing faith; infidel.

Thesaurus

Unfaithful (58 Occurrences)
... a.) Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating
trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an ...
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Faithless (46 Occurrences)
... In Luke 12:46 apistos has the sense of "unfaithful," so the Revised Version (British
and American); perhaps also Revelation 21:8, "unbelieving.". ...
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Unfaithfulness (27 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 26:40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and ...
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Faithlessly (5 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Hosea 5:7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate
children. ... They were unfaithful to me, there. (See RSV). ...
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Mammon (4 Occurrences)
... `Do not infer,' He says, that honesty in the use of money is a matter of indifference.
He that is unfaithful in little is unfaithful in much. ...
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Swell (9 Occurrences)
... swel (tsabhah): In the ordeal of the Water of Jealousy described in Numbers
5:11-31 (P), the effect on the unfaithful wife ot the drinking of the holy water ...
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Asunder (37 Occurrences)
... (3) (dichotomeo): The fate of the Unfaithful Steward, literally, "cut in two"; the
Revised Version, margin "severely scourge him" (Matthew 24:51 Luke 12:46). ...
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Portion (227 Occurrences)
... servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he
doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful...
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Unfaithfully (19 Occurrences)

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Knoweth (152 Occurrences)
... servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth
not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful. ...
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Bible Concordance

Unfaithful (58 Occurrences)

Luke 12:46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
(WEB WEY ASV YLT RSV)

Romans 3:3 For what if some Jews have proved unfaithful? Shall their faithlessness render God's faithfulness worthless?
(WEY RSV)

1 Corinthians 4:4 Though I am not conscious of having been in any way unfaithful, yet I do not for that reason stand acquitted; but He whose scrutiny I must undergo is the Lord.
(WEY)

2 Timothy 2:13 if we are unfaithful, he abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.
(DBY)

James 4:4 You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
(WEY RSV)

Revelation 21:8 But as for cowards and the unfaithful, and the polluted, and murderers, fornicators, and those who practise magic or worship idols, and all liars--the portion allotted to them shall be in the Lake which burns with fire and sulphur. This is the Second Death."
(WEY)

Leviticus 26:40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,
(Root in DBY NAS)

Numbers 5:6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any of all the sins of man to work unfaithfulness against Jehovah, and that soul is guilty,
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Numbers 5:12 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them:'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,
(WEB JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 5:27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have acted unfaithfully against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away; and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
(Root in JPS DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:20 He said, "I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
(See NIV)

Joshua 22:16 "Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh,'What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
(See NAS)

Joshua 22:22 "The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
(See NAS)

Joshua 22:31 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, "Today we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh."
(See NAS NIV)

1 Chronicles 10:13 And Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it;
(Root in DBY RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 12:2 It happened in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from Yahweh God.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 28:19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed severely against Yahweh.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 28:22 In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 30:7 Don't be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
(See NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have acted unfaithfully toward our God, and have taken foreign wives of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Ezra 10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Nehemiah 1:8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye act unfaithfully, I will scatter you among the peoples;
(Root in DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 13:27 And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Job 31:28 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
(See NIV)

Psalms 73:27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Proverbs 2:22 but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.
(DBY NIV)

Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroyeth them.
(DBY NIV)

Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
(WEB NIV)

Proverbs 13:2 By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.
(WEB NIV)

Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
(WEB NIV)

Proverbs 14:14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
(WEB)

Proverbs 21:18 The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; but he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
(WEB DBY NIV)

Proverbs 23:28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
(WEB NIV)

Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)

Jeremiah 3:7 And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 3:8 And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 3:10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 3:11 And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 3:20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 5:11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 9:2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 31:22 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 49:4 Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? who trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 14:13 Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by working unfaithfulness, and I stretch out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from it;
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 15:8 And I will make the land a desolation, because they have wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his unfaithfulness in which he hath been unfaithful against me.
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Ezekiel 39:23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful against me; and I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies, so that they fell all of them by the sword.
(DBY NIV)

Daniel 9:7 Thine, O Lord, is the righteousness, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their unfaithfulness in which they have been unfaithful against thee.
(Root in DBY NAS NIV)

Hosea 4:12 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
(WEB NIV)

Hosea 5:7 They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
(WEB NIV)

Hosea 6:7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
(WEB NIV)

Hosea 9:1 Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
(WEB NIV)

Hosea 11:12 Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
(WEB)

Subtopics

Unfaithful

Related Terms

Faithless (46 Occurrences)

Unfaithfulness (27 Occurrences)

Faithlessly (5 Occurrences)

Mammon (4 Occurrences)

Swell (9 Occurrences)

Asunder (37 Occurrences)

Portion (227 Occurrences)

Unfaithfully (19 Occurrences)

Knoweth (152 Occurrences)