ὀλιγόπιστος
little faith
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Vocative, Plural, Masculine 4 times (67%)
- Adjective, Vocative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (17%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (17%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 6 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3640 appears — 6 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 6:30 ὀλιγόπιστοι adj voc pl masc But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
- Matthew 8:26 ὀλιγόπιστοι adj voc pl masc He said to them, "Why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
- Matthew 14:31 ὀλιγόπιστε adj voc sg masc Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
- Matthew 16:8 ὀλιγόπιστοι adj voc pl masc Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'
- Matthew 17:20 ὀλιγοπιστίαν n acc sg fem He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most assuredly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun ολιγοπιστος centers on the idea of “little faith.” Matthew dominates its distribution — 5 of 6 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Matthew 6:30, it enters the text early. Related forms include ολιγος, ολιγοψυχος and ολιγωρεω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3640 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ye of little faith 4×
- American Standard Version: Ye of little faith 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Little faith 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Little 6×, You of little faith 3×, Ones of little faith 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3640 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3640 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3640 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3640 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- of little faith, trusting too little
Word origin
Derived from ολιγος (olígos) (G3641) — little.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3640 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὀλιγόπιστοι oligópistoi | Adjective, Vocative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 6:30 | 4 |
| ὀλιγοπιστίαν oligopistían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 17:20 | 1 |
| ὀλιγόπιστε oligópiste | Adjective, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 14:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3640, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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