apostasias

Strong’sG646

defection, apostasy

stem apostasi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

† ἀποστασία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀφίστημι), [in LXX for מַעַל, etc.;]

defection, apostasy, revolt; in late Gk. (MM, Exp., viii; Lft., Notes, 111; Cremer, 308) for cl. ἀπόστασις, freq. in sense of political revolt, in LXX (e.g. Jos 22:22, II Ch 29:19, Je 2:19) and NT always of religious apostasy: Ac 21:21, II Th 2:3.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G646 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap-os-tas-ee'-ah

defection from truth (properly, the state) ("apostasy")

Fromfeminine of the same as G647;

King Jamesfalling away, forsake.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀπο-στᾰσία, ἡ,
late form for ἀπόστασις, defection, revolt, variant in Refs 1st c.BC+; especially in religious sense, rebellion against God, apostasy, LXX+NT
2 departure, disappearance, Refs 6th c.AD+
3 distinguishing, with genitive, Refs 6th c.AD+
4 distance, Refs 3rd c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

forsake1×rebellion1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	apostasias1×ἀποστασία	apostasiais
object accusative	apostasian1×ἀποστασίαν	apostasiain
direct address vocative	apostasiar	apostasiair
of, belonging to genitive	apostasiau	apostasiaiu
to, for dative	apostasia	apostasiai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

apostasistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

apostasia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

apostasiem — ἀποστάσιον, repudiation, divorce

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

apostasias“rebellion”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Thessalonians 2:3… tropon; hoti ean mē erchateia tas apostasias prōtem kai apokaluptiteia tos anthrōpos tau …… it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness …

apostasian“forsake”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 21:21katēchila de peri su hoti apostasian didaskasō apo Mōusou toin kata teim …… who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise …