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Strong's G647 · Greek

ἀποστάσιον

apostasion · ap-os-tas'-ee-on

neuter of a (presumed) adjective from a derivative of 868; properly, something separative, i.e. (specially) divorce


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ἀποστάσιον (G647)

3 ἀποστάσιον , -ου, τό ( ἀφίστημι ), [in LXX; De 24:1 , 3 , Je 3:8 , Is 50:1 ( כְּרִיתֻת , כְּרִיתוּת )*;] in cl., only in phrase ἀποστασίου δίκη , an action against a freedman for forsaking his προστάτης (Dem.). In LXX, βιβλίον ἀποστασίου , a bill of divorce : Mt 19:7 , Mk 10:4 ; in same sense ἀ. alone (MM, s.v.), Mt 5:31 (for other late exx., v. MM, s.v.; Kennedy, Sources , 121).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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