Definition

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

Etymology

feminine of the same as G647 (ἀποστάσιον);

Word family

• ἀποστάσιον apostásion

How the KJV renders it

• falling away
• forsake

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.