ἀποστασία
apostasía · G646 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to rebel against, to revolt, to engage in insurrection, rebellion
To rise up in open defiance of authority, with the presumed intention to overthrow it or to act in complete opposition to its demands
ExamplesActs 21:21 and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔρχομαιto come 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διδάσκωto teach, teaching 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Contrasting words 1 word
- πίστις pístis · G4102 · what can be fully believed, that which is worthy of belief, believable evidence
- Greek term for faith/faithfulness; genuine lexical opposite to ἀποστασία, as faithfulness (remaining in truth/allegiance) directly contrasts with apostasy (defection from truth/allegiance).
In the other Testament 2 words
- מֶרֶד mered · H4777 · rebellion
- Hebrew term for rebellion/revolt, especially against authority (frequently used of rebellion against God or king); corresponds closely to the Greek ἀποστασία in denoting the state or act of defection from allegiance.
- מַעַל maʻal · H4604 · unfaithfulness, upwards, above
- Hebrew term for unfaithfulness or treacherous breach of covenant obligation, particularly against God; captures the covenant-breaking aspect of apostasy as defection from truth.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To rebel against, to revolt, to engage in insurrection, rebellion39.34
- In 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Paul warns that the day of the Lord “will not come unless the apostasy (apostasía) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed,” describing a large-scale falling away or rebellion against God preceding the end.
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποστασιας, ἡ (ἀφισταμαι), a falling away, defection, apostasy; in the Bible namely, from…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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