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disobey, disobedient, disobedience
Definition:
The term "disobey" means to not obey what someone in authority has commanded or instructed. A person who does this is being "disobedient."
- A person who does something he was told not to do is disobeying.
- To disobey also means to refuse to do something that was commanded.
- The term "disobedient" is also used to describe the character of someone who habitually disobeys or rebels. It means that they are sinful or wicked.
- The term "disobedience" means "the act of not obeying" or "behavior that is against what God wants."
- A "disobedient people" could be translated by "people who keep on disobeying" or "people who do not do what God commands."
(See also: authority · evil, wicked, wickedness · sin, sinful, sinner · obey, obedient)
Bible References:
Examples from the Bible stories:
- 02-11 God said to the man, "You listened to your wife and disobeyed me."
- 13-07 If the people obeyed these laws, God promised that he would bless and protect them. If they disobeyed them, God would punish them.
- 16-02 Because the Israelites kept disobeying God, he punished them by allowing their enemies to defeat them.
- 35-12"The older son said to his father, 'All these years I have worked faithfully for you! I never disobeyed you, and still you did not give me one small goat so I could celebrate with my friends.'"