apostasion - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H647 — aphiach (“Aphiah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G647 ἀποστάσιον (apostasion) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apostasion (ap-os-tas'-ee-on) n. 1. (properly) something separative 2. (specially) divorce It has 7 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include writing and divorcement. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
apostasion (ap-os-tas'-ee-on) n. 1. (properly) something separative 2. (specially) divorce [neuter of a (presumed) adjective from a derivative of G868] KJV: (writing of) divorcement Root(s): G868 Compare: G3080
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G647. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
divorce
Usage: ἀποστάσιον, -ου, τό (ἀφίστημι), [in LXX; Deu.24:1, 3, Jer.3:8, Isa.50:1 (כְּרִיתוּת) * ;] __1. in cl., only in phrase ἀποστασίου δίκη, an action against a freedman for forsaking his προστάτης (Dem.). __2. In LXX, βιβλίον ἀποστασίου, a bill of divorce: Mat.19:7, Mrk.10:4; in same sense ἀ. alone (MM, see word), Mat.5:31 (for other late exx., see MM, l.with; Kennedy, Sources, 121).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apostasion, 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 and New Testament. 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 G647 (ἀποστάσιον) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if anyone should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favor before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.
and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;
Thus saith the Lord, Of what kind is your mother’s bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, ye are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G647.
And if anyone should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favor before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.
and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;
Thus saith the Lord, Of what kind is your mother’s bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, ye are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.
And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a bill of divorcement), yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and herself also committed fornication.
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G647, grouped by book.
Strong's G647 is a Greek entry for G647 ἀποστάσιον (apostasion). apostasion (ap-os-tas'-ee-on) n. 1. (properly) something separative 2. (specially) divorce
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G647 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G647 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as writing and divorcement. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G647, with linked reader references where each row is available.