Strong G4714στάσις
uprising
- Transliteration
- stasis
- Pronunciation
- stas'-is
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From the base of G2476; a standing (properly the act) that is (by analogy) position (existence); by implication a popular uprising; figuratively controversy: - dissension insurrection X standing uproar.
Detailed definition
στάσις, -εως, ἡ
(ἵστημι), [in LXX chiefly for עָמַד, its parts and derivatives, also for רִיב (Pr 1714), etc. (see Deiss., BS, 158 f.);]
1. a standing, place, status: σ. ἔχειν (Polyb., v, 5, 3; and cf. Lat. locum habere), Heb.9:8.
2. insurrection, sedition: Mrk.15:7, Luk.23:19, 25, Act.19:40 24:5.
3. In poets and late prose, strife, dissension (cf. MM, xxiii) Act.15:2 23:7, 10.†
(AS)
(ἵστημι), [in LXX chiefly for עָמַד, its parts and derivatives, also for רִיב (Pr 1714), etc. (see Deiss., BS, 158 f.);]
1. a standing, place, status: σ. ἔχειν (Polyb., v, 5, 3; and cf. Lat. locum habere), Heb.9:8.
2. insurrection, sedition: Mrk.15:7, Luk.23:19, 25, Act.19:40 24:5.
3. In poets and late prose, strife, dissension (cf. MM, xxiii) Act.15:2 23:7, 10.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4714 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- dissension3
- sedition3
- insurrection1
- stand1
- uproar1
First verses
- Mark 15:7And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
- Luke 23:19(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
- Luke 23:25And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
- Acts 15:2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
- Acts 19:40For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
- Acts 23:7And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
- Acts 23:10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
- Acts 24:5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
- Hebrews 9:8The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
στάσις [ᾰ], εως, ἡ,
(ἵστημι) placing, setting, (i.e. δικτύων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.8, 9.16; τῶν κλιμάκων 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.60.7)]; erection of a statue, εἰκόνος [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 7.411.34 (Oropus, 2nd c.BC); στήλης [prev. work]22.654.59 (3rd c.BC), 11(4).1023 (Delos, 3rd c.BC).)]
2 standing stone, pillar, [LXX (LXX.Judg.9.6.)]
3 erection, building, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (PPetr. 3p.139 (3rd c.BC, _plural_))]; ={ἐργαστήριον}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; so perhaps in “BGU” 1122.18, 21 (1st c.BC).)]
II (ἵστημι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV))] weighing, αὕτη 'στὶ λοιπὴ σφῷν στάσις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1401; βολίμου “SIG” 241 A 28 (Delph., 4th c.BC))]; στάσις μισθοῦ the paying of the doctor's fee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “παραγγελίαι” 4; ἀπὸ τᾶν κοινᾶν ποθόδων.. ἐπιλυθῆμεν τοὺς ἐρρυτιασμένους στάσι “IG” 42(1).77.13 (Troezen, 2nd c.BC).)]
B (ἵσταμαι) standing, stature, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 36 (marginalM βάσιν))]; standing still, stationariness, defined as ἀπόφασις τοῦ ἰέναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 426d; opposed to φορά, κίνησις, [prev. work] 437a, 438c, “Sph.” 250a, 251d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1025b21, +others)]; rest, as a category of the intelligible, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.8)]; opposed to ἠρεμία, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.3.27)]; ὀμμάτων στάσιες fixed stare, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]; σ. ὤτων pricking of the ears, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.61)]; σ. τῆς γαστρός constipation, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus (?) 13.6)]; [τοῦ αἵματος] sluggishness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]; τοῦ ἀέρος,= νηνεμία, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 18, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.908.)]
B.2 the place in which one stands or should stand, position, posture, station, ἔχοντες σ. ταύτην ἐς τὴν ἔστημεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.21)]; λέβης.. φυλάσσων τὴν ὑπὲρ πυρὸς σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 1)]; ἰδέσθαι.., τίν᾽ ἔχει σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 308 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 954; τὴν Ἰνοῦς σ. ἑστάναι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 925)]; τῆς αὐτῆς ἠξιοῦτο σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.272)]; σ. ἵππων,= ἱππόστασις, σταθμός, stable, stall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 442; ὄνων ἵππων τε στάσεις 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 18; τῆς σ. παρασύρων.. τὰς δρῦς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 527)]; κατὰ τὴν σ. δὴ στάντες standing each in his place, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antidotus Comicus 2)]; of military formation, κατάπυκνος σ. close order, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 5.1)]; row, ἀμπέλων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Tab.Heracl.” 2.77, +others, compare “BGU” 1122.18, 21 (1st c.BC, unless in signification 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.3).)]
B.2.b position in relation to the compass, ἡ σ. ἤλλακτο τῶν ὡρέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.26; ἡ σ. τοῦ νότου καὶ τῆς μεσαμβρίης [prev. passage];)] setting of a wind from a quarter, τῶν ἐτησίων ἤδη στάσιν ἐχόντων having set in, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.5.3)]; γίνεταί τις ἀνέμου σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.48.2, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b33, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 35 (_plural_); see below 111.4.)]
B.2.c of planetary connexion, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 38.17.)]
B.2.d metaphorically, from a boxer's position, ὥσπερ.. ὁρᾶτε τοὺς πύκτας περὶ τῆς σ. ἀλλήλοις διαγωνιζομένους, οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖς.. ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως περὶ τῆς σ. (τάξεως codices, but[Refs 4th c.BC+ (compare 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus “Inst.” 3.6.3) αὐτῷ μάχεσθε 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.206)]: hence, position taken up by a litigant (especially defendant), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Topica” 25.93; ἐπ᾽ ἀδίκου σ. ἱστάμενος “PRein.” 18.16 (2nd c.BC))]; issue, σ. ὁρική, νομική, λογική, etc., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 2, compare 5th c.AD: Syrianus Philosophus et Rhetor “in Hermogenem commentaria” 2.55 R.)]
B.2.e position, opinion of a philosopher, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 4, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.48, 3.33, 37, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Marcellinus Medicus “de Pulsibus - Festschrift zur 49. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner” 234.)]
B.3 position, state, condition of a person, ἐν τῇ καλλίονι στάσει εἶναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 253d)]; especially of moral, social, political position, μειρακιώδης [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.33.6; ἰδιώτου 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 48; φιλοσόφου 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.15.13; σ. ἔχειν ἐν τῷ βίῳ [prev. work] 1.21.1)]; state of affairs, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Ostr. 1151.3 (3rd c.AD))]; ἡ σ. τῆς νόσου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ κρισίμων ἡμερέων” 10, compare “Mochl.” 21 (_plural_).)]
B.4 στάσις μελῶν, explained by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia as ={στάσιμον} (which see), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1281.)]
B.II party, company, band, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1117 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 114, 458 (Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 311 (_anapaest meter_).)]
B.III especially party formed for seditious purposes, faction, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 51, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.59, 60; ἐπεκράτησε τῇ στάσι [prev. work] 173)]; αἱ τῶν Μεγαρέων σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.71.)]
B.III.2 faction, sedition, discord, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 781, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.19, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 245, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65; οἴκων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.13, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.28, +others; σ. ἀντιάνειρα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.16)]; σκεπτομένων πόθεν ἡ σ. how the row began, [Refs (Batrachomyomachia 135)]; στάσις ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ὠροθύνετο a contest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 202; ὅστις.. στάσιν ποιέοι περὶ γαδαισίας “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC))]; εἰς λόγου στάσιν ἐπελθών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1180; σ. γλώσσης [prev. author] “OT” 634; στάσει νοσοῦσα πόλις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 34; τὰς σ. ἐποιοῦντο πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.79; στάσεις παύω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.6.14; καταλύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 359; πόλιν εἰς στάσιν ἐμβάλλειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.11; τὴν πόλιν εἰς στάσεις κατέστησαν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.26; κατὰ στάσιν ἀποκτείνειν [prev. author] 30.13)]; opposed to πόλεμος, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 470b, compare “Phd.” 66c, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus [same place]; στάσεις καὶ διαστάσεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a8.)]
B.III.3 division, dissent, στάσιν ἐνέσεσθαι τῇ γνώμῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.20)]; οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σ. there's no disputing it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 738 (troch.).)]
B.III.4 metaphorically, τὰν ἀνέμων σ. [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18 (unless in signification 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.2b); ἀνέμων πνεύματα.. στάσιν ἀντίπνουν ἀποδεικνύμενα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1087 (_anapaest meter_); σ. κυμάτων Ach. Tat. 3.2.)]
B.IV στάσεις,= τὰ πεφυκότα σπέρματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 859.)]
B.V statute, decree, [LXX (LXX.Dan.6.7(8), LXX.1Mac.7.18.)]
(ἵστημι) placing, setting, (i.e. δικτύων) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 2.8, 9.16; τῶν κλιμάκων 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.60.7)]; erection of a statue, εἰκόνος [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 7.411.34 (Oropus, 2nd c.BC); στήλης [prev. work]22.654.59 (3rd c.BC), 11(4).1023 (Delos, 3rd c.BC).)]
2 standing stone, pillar, [LXX (LXX.Judg.9.6.)]
3 erection, building, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (PPetr. 3p.139 (3rd c.BC, _plural_))]; ={ἐργαστήριον}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; so perhaps in “BGU” 1122.18, 21 (1st c.BC).)]
II (ἵστημι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus IV))] weighing, αὕτη 'στὶ λοιπὴ σφῷν στάσις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1401; βολίμου “SIG” 241 A 28 (Delph., 4th c.BC))]; στάσις μισθοῦ the paying of the doctor's fee, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “παραγγελίαι” 4; ἀπὸ τᾶν κοινᾶν ποθόδων.. ἐπιλυθῆμεν τοὺς ἐρρυτιασμένους στάσι “IG” 42(1).77.13 (Troezen, 2nd c.BC).)]
B (ἵσταμαι) standing, stature, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 36 (marginalM βάσιν))]; standing still, stationariness, defined as ἀπόφασις τοῦ ἰέναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 426d; opposed to φορά, κίνησις, [prev. work] 437a, 438c, “Sph.” 250a, 251d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1025b21, +others)]; rest, as a category of the intelligible, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.8)]; opposed to ἠρεμία, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.3.27)]; ὀμμάτων στάσιες fixed stare, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]; σ. ὤτων pricking of the ears, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.61)]; σ. τῆς γαστρός constipation, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus (?) 13.6)]; [τοῦ αἵματος] sluggishness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]; τοῦ ἀέρος,= νηνεμία, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Ventis” 18, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.908.)]
B.2 the place in which one stands or should stand, position, posture, station, ἔχοντες σ. ταύτην ἐς τὴν ἔστημεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.21)]; λέβης.. φυλάσσων τὴν ὑπὲρ πυρὸς σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 1)]; ἰδέσθαι.., τίν᾽ ἔχει σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 308 (_anapaest meter_), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 954; τὴν Ἰνοῦς σ. ἑστάναι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 925)]; τῆς αὐτῆς ἠξιοῦτο σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.272)]; σ. ἵππων,= ἱππόστασις, σταθμός, stable, stall, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 442; ὄνων ἵππων τε στάσεις 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 18; τῆς σ. παρασύρων.. τὰς δρῦς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 527)]; κατὰ τὴν σ. δὴ στάντες standing each in his place, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antidotus Comicus 2)]; of military formation, κατάπυκνος σ. close order, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 5.1)]; row, ἀμπέλων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Tab.Heracl.” 2.77, +others, compare “BGU” 1122.18, 21 (1st c.BC, unless in signification 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.3).)]
B.2.b position in relation to the compass, ἡ σ. ἤλλακτο τῶν ὡρέων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.26; ἡ σ. τοῦ νότου καὶ τῆς μεσαμβρίης [prev. passage];)] setting of a wind from a quarter, τῶν ἐτησίων ἤδη στάσιν ἐχόντων having set in, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.5.3)]; γίνεταί τις ἀνέμου σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.48.2, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 362b33, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 35 (_plural_); see below 111.4.)]
B.2.c of planetary connexion, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 38.17.)]
B.2.d metaphorically, from a boxer's position, ὥσπερ.. ὁρᾶτε τοὺς πύκτας περὶ τῆς σ. ἀλλήλοις διαγωνιζομένους, οὕτω καὶ ὑμεῖς.. ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως περὶ τῆς σ. (τάξεως codices, but[Refs 4th c.BC+ (compare 1st c.AD: Quintilianus Rhetor Latinus “Inst.” 3.6.3) αὐτῷ μάχεσθε 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.206)]: hence, position taken up by a litigant (especially defendant), [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Topica” 25.93; ἐπ᾽ ἀδίκου σ. ἱστάμενος “PRein.” 18.16 (2nd c.BC))]; issue, σ. ὁρική, νομική, λογική, etc., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ τῶν στάσεων” 2, compare 5th c.AD: Syrianus Philosophus et Rhetor “in Hermogenem commentaria” 2.55 R.)]
B.2.e position, opinion of a philosopher, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cicero” 4, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 2.48, 3.33, 37, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Marcellinus Medicus “de Pulsibus - Festschrift zur 49. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner” 234.)]
B.3 position, state, condition of a person, ἐν τῇ καλλίονι στάσει εἶναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 253d)]; especially of moral, social, political position, μειρακιώδης [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.33.6; ἰδιώτου 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 48; φιλοσόφου 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 3.15.13; σ. ἔχειν ἐν τῷ βίῳ [prev. work] 1.21.1)]; state of affairs, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (Ostr. 1151.3 (3rd c.AD))]; ἡ σ. τῆς νόσου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ κρισίμων ἡμερέων” 10, compare “Mochl.” 21 (_plural_).)]
B.4 στάσις μελῶν, explained by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia as ={στάσιμον} (which see), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1281.)]
B.II party, company, band, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1117 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 114, 458 (Lyric poetry), “Eu.” 311 (_anapaest meter_).)]
B.III especially party formed for seditious purposes, faction, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 51, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.59, 60; ἐπεκράτησε τῇ στάσι [prev. work] 173)]; αἱ τῶν Μεγαρέων σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.71.)]
B.III.2 faction, sedition, discord, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 781, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.19, 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 245, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65; οἴκων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 9.13, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.28, +others; σ. ἀντιάνειρα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.16)]; σκεπτομένων πόθεν ἡ σ. how the row began, [Refs (Batrachomyomachia 135)]; στάσις ἐν ἀλλήλοισιν ὠροθύνετο a contest, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 202; ὅστις.. στάσιν ποιέοι περὶ γαδαισίας “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.8 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC))]; εἰς λόγου στάσιν ἐπελθών [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1180; σ. γλώσσης [prev. author] “OT” 634; στάσει νοσοῦσα πόλις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 34; τὰς σ. ἐποιοῦντο πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.79; στάσεις παύω 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.6.14; καταλύειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 359; πόλιν εἰς στάσιν ἐμβάλλειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.4.11; τὴν πόλιν εἰς στάσεις κατέστησαν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 25.26; κατὰ στάσιν ἀποκτείνειν [prev. author] 30.13)]; opposed to πόλεμος, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 470b, compare “Phd.” 66c, 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus [same place]; στάσεις καὶ διαστάσεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1296a8.)]
B.III.3 division, dissent, στάσιν ἐνέσεσθαι τῇ γνώμῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.20)]; οὐδ᾽ ἔνι σ. there's no disputing it, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 738 (troch.).)]
B.III.4 metaphorically, τὰν ἀνέμων σ. [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 18 (unless in signification 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1.2b); ἀνέμων πνεύματα.. στάσιν ἀντίπνουν ἀποδεικνύμενα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1087 (_anapaest meter_); σ. κυμάτων Ach. Tat. 3.2.)]
B.IV στάσεις,= τὰ πεφυκότα σπέρματα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 859.)]
B.V statute, decree, [LXX (LXX.Dan.6.7(8), LXX.1Mac.7.18.)]