Strong’s G646 · Greek
ἀποστασία
apostasía · ap-os-tas-ee'-ah
Origin feminine of the same as ἀποστάσιον (G647);
Meaning defection from truth (properly, the state) ("apostasy")
In the King James Version falling away, forsake.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Acts 21:21And 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.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3Let 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;
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.