646. apostasia

Lexicon

apostasia: Apostasy, rebellion, defection, falling away

Original Word: ἀποστασία
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: apostasia
Pronunciation: ah-pos-tah-SEE-ah
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-os-tas-ee'-ah)
KJV: falling away, forsake
NASB: apostasy, forsake
Word Origin: [feminine of the same as G647 (ἀποστάσιον - divorce)]

1. defection from truth (properly, the state)
2. "apostasy"

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

falling away, apostacy

Feminine of the same as apostasion; defection from truth (properly, the state) ("apostasy") -- falling away, forsake.

see GREEK apostasion

HELPS Word-studies

646 apostasía (from 868 /aphístēmi, "leave, depart," which is derived from 575 /apó, "away from" and 2476 /histémi, "stand") – properly, departure (implying desertion); apostasy – literally, "a leaving, from a previous standing."

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from aphistémi
Definition
defection, revolt
NASB Translation
apostasy (1), forsake (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 646: ἀποστασία

ἀποστασία, ἀποστασιας, ἡ (ἀφισταμαι), a falling away, defection, apostasy; in the Bible namely, from the true religion: Acts 21:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:3; ((Joshua 22:22; 2 Chronicles 29:19; 2 Chronicles 33:19); Jeremiah 2:19; Jeremiah 36:(29) 32 Complutensian; 1 Macc. 2:15). The earlier Greeks say ἀπόστασις; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 528; (Winer's Grammar, 24).

Forms and Transliterations

αποστασια αποστασία ἀποστασία αποστασιαν αποστασίαν ἀποστασίαν apostasia apostasía apostasian apostasían

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 21:21 N-AFS
GRK: σοῦ ὅτι ἀποστασίαν διδάσκεις ἀπὸ
NAS: the Gentiles to forsake Moses,
KJV: the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying
INT: you that apostasy you teach from

2 Thessalonians 2:3 N-NFS
GRK: ἔλθῃ ἡ ἀποστασία πρῶτον καὶ
NAS: you, for [it will not come] unless the apostasy comes
KJV: there come a falling away first,
INT: shall have come the apostasy first and

Strong's Greek 646
2 Occurrences

ἀποστασία — 1 Occ.
ἀποστασίαν — 1 Occ.