Greek noun (feminine) · G646
ἀποστασία
apostasiaap-os-tas-ee'-ah
apostasy
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: apostasía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G646is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G646
defection from truth (properly, the state) ("apostasy")
The King James renders it: falling away, forsake.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
apostasia is rendered "apostasy". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 21:21But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
Acts 21:21ἀποστασίαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's two uses is in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- apostasy2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀποστέλλω | apostello | to send | Uses132 |
| ἀπόστολος | apostolos | apostle | Uses79 |
| ἀποστρέφω | apostrepho | to turn away | Uses9 |
| ἀποστερέω | apostereo | to defraud | Uses6 |
| ἀποσπάω | apospao | to draw away | Uses4 |
| ἀποστολή | apostole | apostleship | Uses4 |
| ἀποστάσιον | apostasion | divorce | Uses3 |
| ἀποσυνάγωγος | aposynagogos | excommunicated | Uses3 |
| ἀποστυγέω | apostygeo | to abhor | Uses1 |
| ἀποσκευάζω | aposkeuazo | to pack up | Uses1 |
| ἀποσκίασμα | aposkiasma | shadow | Uses1 |
| ἀποστεγάζω | apostegazo | to unroof | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἀποστασία1
- ἀποστασίαν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Acts
one use
But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.
- ἀποστασίανapostasiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: apostasy
2 Thessalonians
one use
Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
- ἀποστασίαapostasianoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: apostasy
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.