ἀποστάτης
rebel, apostate
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποστάτης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 14:9 ἀποστάτης Only depart not from the Lord; and fear you⌃ not the people of the land, for they are meat for us; for the season of prosperity is departed from them, but the Lord is among us: fear them not.
- Joshua 22:16 ἀποστάτης Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, What is this transgression that you⌃ have transgressed before the God of Israel, to turn away today from the Lord, in that you⌃ have built for yourselves an altar, so that you⌃ should be apostates from the Lord?
- Joshua 22:19 ἀποστάτης And now if the land of your possession be too little, cross over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord dwells, and receive you⌃ an inheritance among us; and do not become apostates from God, neither do you⌃ apostatize from the Lord, because of your having built an altar apart from the altar of the Lord our God.
- Job 26:13 ἀποστάτης And the barriers of heaven fear him, and by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.
- Isaiah 30:1 ἀποστάτης Woe to the apostate children, says the Lord: you⌃ have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:
- Daniel 3:32 ἀποστάτης It seemed good to me to declare to you the signs and wonders which the most high God has wrought with me,
About this word
About this word
ἀποστάτης (apostátēs), “rebel, apostate,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 6 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →