Disobedience, Disobedient
Disobedience, Disobedient
dis-o-bedi-ens, (, marah; , apeitheo, , parakouo): The word used chiefly in the New Testament has the general meaning of a lack of regard for authority or rulership. The stronger meaning of actual stubbornness or violence is perhaps conveyed in the Old Testament (1Ki 13:26; Neh 9:26; compare 1Ki 13:21).
In the New Testament there seem to be two rather clearly defined uses of the word, one objective and practical, the other ethical and psychological. The first refers more to conduct, the second to belief and one’s mental attitude toward the object of disobedience. To the first belong such passages as refer to the overt act of disobedience to one’s parents (Rom 1:30; 2Ti 3:2). Illustrating this more fully, the translation according to the King James Version of 1Ti 1:9 is given as unruly in the Revised Version (British and American). By far the greater emphasis, however, is placed upon the distinctly ethical quality in which disobedience is really an attitude of the mind and finds its essence in a heart of unbelief and unfaithfulness (1Pe 2:7, 1Pe 2:8; Eph 2:2; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6). In the latter three references children (sons) of disobedience are mentioned, as if one should become the very offspring of such an unhappy and unholy state of mind. The classic phrase of New Testament literature (Act 26:19) contains both the practical and the ethical aspects. Paul’s convictions were changed by the vision and his conduct was made to conform immediately to it.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Disobedience, Disobedient
lit., “the condition of being unpersuadable” (a, negative, peitho, “to persuade”), denotes “obstinacy, obstinate rejection of the will of God;” hence, “disobedience;” Eph 2:2; Eph 5:6; Col 3:6, and in the RV of Rom 11:30, Rom 11:32 and Heb 4:6, Heb 4:11 (for AV, “unbelief”), speaking of Israel, past and present. See UNBELIEF.
primarily, “hearing amiss” (para, “aside,” akouo, “to hear”), hence signifies “a refusal to hear;” hence, “an act of disobedience,” Rom 5:19; 2Co 10:6; Heb 2:2. It is broadly to be distinguished from No. 1, as an act from a condition, though parakoe itself is the effect, in transgression, of the condition of failing or refusing to hear. Carelessness in attitude is the precursor of actual “disobedience.” In the OT “disobedience” is frequently described as “a refusing to hear,” e.g., Jer 11:10; Jer 35:17; cp. Act 7:57. See Trench, Syn. xvi.
akin to A, No. 1, signifies “unwilling to be persuaded, spurning belief, disobedient,” Luk 1:17; Act 26:19; Rom 1:30; 2Ti 3:2; Tit 1:16; Tit 3:3.
Note: In 1Ti 1:9 anupotaktos, “insubordinate, unsubjected” (a, negative, n, euphonic, hupo, “under,” tasso, “to order”), is translated “disobedient” in the AV; the RV has “unruly,” as in Tit 1:6, Tit 1:10; in Heb 2:8, “not subject” (RV), “not put under” (AV). See PUT, UNRULY.
akin to A, No. 1, and B, “to refuse to be persuaded, to refuse belief, to be disobedient,” is translated “disobedient,” or by the verb “to be disobedient,” in the RV of Act 14:2 (AV, “unbelieving”), and Act 19:9 (AV, “believed not”); it is absent from the most authentic mss. in Act 17:5; in Joh 3:36 “obeyeth not,” RV (AV, “believeth not”); in Rom 2:8 “obey not;” in Rom 10:21, “disobedient;” in Rom 11:30-31, “were disobedient” (AV, “have not believed”); so in Rom 15:31; Heb 3:18; Heb 11:31; in 1Pe 2:8, “disobedient;” so in 1Pe 3:20; in 1Pe 3:1; 1Pe 4:17, “obey not.” In 1Pe 2:7 the best mss. have apisteo, “to disbelieve.” See OBEY, B, No. 4, UNBELIEVING.