ΣΤΟΑ, στοα
STOA, stoa
Sounds Like: sto-AH
Translations: portico, a portico, porch, a porch, colonnade, a colonnade
From the root: ΣΤΟΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: A stoa is a covered walkway or portico, typically open on one side with columns supporting the roof. It was a common architectural feature in ancient Greek cities, often used as a public space for walking, meeting, and philosophical discussion. It can refer to any covered structure with columns.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G4744 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 20 — 9:221
Josephus' The Jewish War
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΟΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΣΤΟΑΙ — porticoes, colonnades, porches
- ΣΤΟΑΙΣ — to porticoes, to colonnades, to porches, to stoas
- ΣΤΟΑΝ — porch, a porch, portico, a portico, colonnade, a colonnade
- ΣΤΟΑΣ — of a portico, of a colonnade, of a porch, of a stoa
- ΣΤΟΑΣΤΟ — of a stoa, of the stoa, of a portico, of the portico
- ΣΤΟΩΝ — of porticoes, of colonnades, of porches
- ΤΑΣΣΤΟΑΣ — porticoes, a portico, colonnades, a colonnade
- ΤΗΝΣΤΟΑΝ — the stoa, a stoa, the portico, a portico
- ΤΩΝΣΤΟΩΝ — of the stoas, of the porticoes, of the colonnades
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