Strong G4731στερεός
strong
- Transliteration
- stereos
- Pronunciation
- ster-eh-os'
- Morphology
- Greek Adjective
Definition
From G2476; stiff that is solid 6
stable (literally or figuratively): - stedfast strong sure.
stable (literally or figuratively): - stedfast strong sure.
Detailed definition
στερεός, -ά, -όν
[in LXX: Num.8:4 (מִקְשָׁה); σ. πέτρα, Isa.5:28 (צַר), etc.;]
hard, firm, solid: τροψή, Heb.5:12, 14; θεμέλιος, figuratively, 2Ti.2:19. Metaphorical,
__(a) in bad sense, hard, cruel (Hom., al.);
__(b) in good sense, steadfast, firm: τ. πίστει, 1Pe.5:9.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Num.8:4 (מִקְשָׁה); σ. πέτρα, Isa.5:28 (צַר), etc.;]
hard, firm, solid: τροψή, Heb.5:12, 14; θεμέλιος, figuratively, 2Ti.2:19. Metaphorical,
__(a) in bad sense, hard, cruel (Hom., al.);
__(b) in good sense, steadfast, firm: τ. πίστει, 1Pe.5:9.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4731 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- strong2
- stedfast1
- sure1
First verses
- 2 Timothy 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
- Hebrews 5:12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
- Hebrews 5:14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
- 1 Peter 5:9Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
στερεός, ά, όν,
also στερρός (which see), firm, solid, σ. λίθος ἠὲ σίδηρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.494; βοέαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.493)]; αἰχμὴ σ. πᾶσα χρυσέη all of solid gold, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.52, compare 183; ἕρμα σ. γῆς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 854, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 9.16; γῆ σ. καὶ ἀδιάλυτος 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.2)]; τὰ -ώτερα τῶν ὀστέων, opposed to τὰ ἀραιότερα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 33)]; τὸ σ., opposed to κενόν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 188a22, “Metaphorical” 985b7)]; opposed to μαλθακός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239c)]; κυσὶ σ. καὶ ἰσχνοῖς, opposed to προβάτοις πίοσι καὶ ἁπαλοῖς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 422d; ἀθλητής 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.132; βραχίονες 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.48; δέρματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 321a; νῆμα [prev. author] “Plt.” 282e)]; σ. κέρας solid, opposed to κοῖλον, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 500a6; σ. κάλαμος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.11.10)]; στερεὰ τροφή solid food, [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.4, NT.Heb.5.12, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.16.39 (_comparative_))]; τὸ σ. σῶμα, opposed to ὁ χυλός, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.463)]; σ. κοιλίη costive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]. adverb -ρεῶς firmly, fast, κατέδησαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.346; ἐντέτατο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.263; νῶτα.. ἑλκόμενα σ., of wrestlers, 23.715.)]
b of money, standard, of full value, ἀργυρίου στερεὰ τάλαντα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 826 D 20 (Delph., 2nd c.BC))]; so perhaps of sums due in kind, πυροῦ στερεοῦ [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PRein.” 8.5 (2nd c.BC), +others)]; and of linear and square measures, τῆς προσούσης αὐλῆς πηχῶν σ. ὀκτὼ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ μέρος ἥμισυ πήχεις σ. τέσσερας eight (four) standard cubits, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PStrassb.” 87 (2nd c.BC),compare “PLond.” 3.1024.19 (2nd c.BC))]; πόδες σ. standard feet, [Refs (“Milet.” 7p.59 (from Didyma))]; μέτρημα σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Supp.epigram” 4.446.11 (ibid, 3rd-2nd c.BC).)]
c ὠρύγη ποταμὸς ἐπὶ τὰ τρία σ. the ditch was restored by digging to its three normal dimensions, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 672 (Canopus, 1st c.AD))], compare 673, where the Latin version has at tria soldu (m).
2 metaphorically, stiff, stubborn, στερεοῖς ἐπέεσσι, opposed to μειλιχίοις, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.267; κραδίη -ωτέρη ἐστὶ λίθοιο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.103)]. adverb -ρεῶς, ἀποειπεῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.510, compare 23.42.)]
3 later, hard, stubborn, cruel, πῦρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).36; ὀδύναι [prev. author] “P.” 4.221; ἀπειλαί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 174 (_anapaest meter_); ἁμαρτήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1262 (Lyric poetry); ἦθος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309b; οὕτω σ. [τι] πρᾶγμα θερμόν ἐσθ᾽ ὕδωρ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 245; σ. φωνή 3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 490)]; τοῦτο ἤδη -ώτερον harder, more difficult, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348e.)]
4 of language, τὸ εὔτονον καὶ σ. solidity, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Dinarcho” 8; ποιήματα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.5, compare 4 (_superlative_).)]
5 σ. ζῴδια, i.e. productive of settled conditions, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 1.100.17, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 32, “PMag.Lond.” 46.47.)]
II of bodies and quantities, solid, cubic, opposed to ἐπίπεδος (plane), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 51c)]; σ. γωνία a solid angle, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 54ef, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 11 “Def.” 11; σ. πῆχυς “POxy.” 669.7 (3rd c.AD))]; σ. ἀριθμός a cubic number, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1316a8)]; τὰ σ. cubic numbers, representing bodies of three dimensions, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148b)]: dative singular στερεῷ in the third power, [Refs (Theol.Ar. 4)]. (Cf. Sanskrit sthirás 'firm, hard, solid', OHG. star 'rigid', O[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] starian 'stare fixedly'.)
also στερρός (which see), firm, solid, σ. λίθος ἠὲ σίδηρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.494; βοέαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.493)]; αἰχμὴ σ. πᾶσα χρυσέη all of solid gold, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.52, compare 183; ἕρμα σ. γῆς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 854, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 9.16; γῆ σ. καὶ ἀδιάλυτος 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.2)]; τὰ -ώτερα τῶν ὀστέων, opposed to τὰ ἀραιότερα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 33)]; τὸ σ., opposed to κενόν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 188a22, “Metaphorical” 985b7)]; opposed to μαλθακός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 239c)]; κυσὶ σ. καὶ ἰσχνοῖς, opposed to προβάτοις πίοσι καὶ ἁπαλοῖς, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “R.” 422d; ἀθλητής 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.132; βραχίονες 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.48; δέρματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 321a; νῆμα [prev. author] “Plt.” 282e)]; σ. κέρας solid, opposed to κοῖλον, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 500a6; σ. κάλαμος 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.11.10)]; στερεὰ τροφή solid food, [NT+1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.4, NT.Heb.5.12, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.16.39 (_comparative_))]; τὸ σ. σῶμα, opposed to ὁ χυλός, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.463)]; σ. κοιλίη costive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]. adverb -ρεῶς firmly, fast, κατέδησαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.346; ἐντέτατο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.263; νῶτα.. ἑλκόμενα σ., of wrestlers, 23.715.)]
b of money, standard, of full value, ἀργυρίου στερεὰ τάλαντα [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 826 D 20 (Delph., 2nd c.BC))]; so perhaps of sums due in kind, πυροῦ στερεοῦ [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PRein.” 8.5 (2nd c.BC), +others)]; and of linear and square measures, τῆς προσούσης αὐλῆς πηχῶν σ. ὀκτὼ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ μέρος ἥμισυ πήχεις σ. τέσσερας eight (four) standard cubits, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“PStrassb.” 87 (2nd c.BC),compare “PLond.” 3.1024.19 (2nd c.BC))]; πόδες σ. standard feet, [Refs (“Milet.” 7p.59 (from Didyma))]; μέτρημα σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Supp.epigram” 4.446.11 (ibid, 3rd-2nd c.BC).)]
c ὠρύγη ποταμὸς ἐπὶ τὰ τρία σ. the ditch was restored by digging to its three normal dimensions, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“OGI” 672 (Canopus, 1st c.AD))], compare 673, where the Latin version has at tria soldu (m).
2 metaphorically, stiff, stubborn, στερεοῖς ἐπέεσσι, opposed to μειλιχίοις, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.267; κραδίη -ωτέρη ἐστὶ λίθοιο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.103)]. adverb -ρεῶς, ἀποειπεῖν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.510, compare 23.42.)]
3 later, hard, stubborn, cruel, πῦρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).36; ὀδύναι [prev. author] “P.” 4.221; ἀπειλαί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 174 (_anapaest meter_); ἁμαρτήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1262 (Lyric poetry); ἦθος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 309b; οὕτω σ. [τι] πρᾶγμα θερμόν ἐσθ᾽ ὕδωρ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 245; σ. φωνή 3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 490)]; τοῦτο ἤδη -ώτερον harder, more difficult, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348e.)]
4 of language, τὸ εὔτονον καὶ σ. solidity, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Dinarcho” 8; ποιήματα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.5, compare 4 (_superlative_).)]
5 σ. ζῴδια, i.e. productive of settled conditions, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Serapio Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 1.100.17, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 32, “PMag.Lond.” 46.47.)]
II of bodies and quantities, solid, cubic, opposed to ἐπίπεδος (plane), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 51c)]; σ. γωνία a solid angle, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Ti.” 54ef, compare 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 11 “Def.” 11; σ. πῆχυς “POxy.” 669.7 (3rd c.AD))]; σ. ἀριθμός a cubic number, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1316a8)]; τὰ σ. cubic numbers, representing bodies of three dimensions, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148b)]: dative singular στερεῷ in the third power, [Refs (Theol.Ar. 4)]. (Cf. Sanskrit sthirás 'firm, hard, solid', OHG. star 'rigid', O[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] starian 'stare fixedly'.)