◄ G4747 ►
στοιχεῖον
Transliteration
stoicheion;
Pronunciation
stoy-khi'-on
Parts of Speech
n n
Root Word (Etymology)
from a presumed derivative of the base of 4748
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: TDNT 7:670
KJV Translation Count — 7x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: element (4), rudiment (2), principle (1)
Outline of Biblical Usage
1. any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal
a. the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds
b. the elements from which all things have come, the material causes of the universe
c. the heavenly bodies, either as parts of the heavens or (as others think) because in them the elements of man, life and destiny were supposed to reside
d. the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental principles of any art, science, or discipline
1. i.e. of mathematics, Euclid's geometry
Strong's Definitions
stoy-khi'-on; neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of (4748) (στοιχέω); something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literal), proposition (figurative): — element, principle, rudiment.
Concordance Results Using KJV
Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the G4747s of the world:
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly G4747s, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the G4747s of the world, and not after Christ.
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the G4747s of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first G4747s of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the G4747s shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the G4747s shall melt with fervent heat?