ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΩΝ, στοιχειων
STOICHEIŌN, stoicheiōn
Sounds Like: stoy-KHEH-ee-ohn
Translations: of elements, of principles, of rudiments, of basic components, of elementary teachings, of spirits
From the root: ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΝ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the fundamental components or principles of something. It can denote the basic elements of the physical world (like earth, air, fire, water), the foundational principles of a subject or teaching, or even spiritual powers or elemental spirits. In the provided context, it refers to the basic components from which things are made or the fundamental principles of the cosmos.
Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Neuter
Strong’s number: G4747 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:14
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 7:183
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 20:14
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 8:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 3 — 13:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Colossians — 2:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΝ.
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.
- ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ — elements, principles, rudiments, basic components, basic teachings, fundamental truths
- ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟΝ — element, a basic principle, a rudiment, a component, a constituent, a letter (of the alphabet)
- ΣΤΟΙΧΙΑ — elements, rudiments, principles, basic teachings, elementary principles, elemental spirits
- ΣΤΟΙΧΙΩΝ — of elements, of principles, of rudiments, of the basic components, of the elementary teachings, of the spiritual powers
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