Apostasia means “falling away” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H646 — ephod in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G646 ἀποστασία (apostasia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apostasia (ap-os-tas-ee'-ah) n. 1. defection from truth (properly, the state) 2. "apostasy" It has 6 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include forsake and falling. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
apostasia (ap-os-tas-ee'-ah) n. 1. defection from truth (properly, the state) 2. "apostasy" [feminine of the same as G647] KJV: falling away, forsake Root(s): G647
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G646. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
apostasy
Usage: άποστασία, -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, frequently in sense of political revolt, in LXX (e.g. Jos.22:22, 2Ch.29:19, Jer.2:19) and NT always of religious apostasy: Act.21:21, 2Th.2:3.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apostasia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G646 (ἀποστασία) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
God even God is the Lord, and God even God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day.
and all the vessels which King Ahaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
In the mean while the king’s officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modein, to make them sacrifice.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G646.
God even God is the Lord, and God even God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day.
and all the vessels which King Ahaz polluted in his reign, in his apostasy, we have prepared and purified: behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.
And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
In the mean while the king’s officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modein, to make them sacrifice.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G646, grouped by book.
Apostasia (Strong's G646) is a Greek word most simply glossed "falling away". apostasia (ap-os-tas-ee'-ah) n. 1. defection from truth (properly, the state) 2. "apostasy"
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G646 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G646 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as forsake and falling. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G646, with linked reader references where each row is available.