Strong G4741στηρίζω
to establish
- Transliteration
- stērizō
- Pronunciation
- stay-rid'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
στηρίζω
[in LXX for סָמַךְ, שׂוּם, etc.;]
to fix, set fast, make fast: Luk.16:26; τ. πρόσωτον (Eze.6:2 13:17, al.; see Dalman, Words, 30 f.), Luk.9:51. Metaphorical, to confirm, establish: with, accusative, Luk.22:32, Act.18:23, Rom.1:11 16:25, 1Th.3:2 3:13, 2Th.3:3, Jas.5:8, 1Pe.5:10, Rev.3:2; id. before ἐν, 2Th.2:17, 2Pe.1:12.†
(AS)
[in LXX for סָמַךְ, שׂוּם, etc.;]
to fix, set fast, make fast: Luk.16:26; τ. πρόσωτον (Eze.6:2 13:17, al.; see Dalman, Words, 30 f.), Luk.9:51. Metaphorical, to confirm, establish: with, accusative, Luk.22:32, Act.18:23, Rom.1:11 16:25, 1Th.3:2 3:13, 2Th.3:3, Jas.5:8, 1Pe.5:10, Rev.3:2; id. before ἐν, 2Th.2:17, 2Pe.1:12.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4741 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- stablish6
- establish3
- strengthen2
- fix1
- set1
First verses
- Luke 9:51And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
- Luke 16:26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
- Luke 22:32But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
- Romans 1:11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
- Romans 16:25Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
- 1 Thessalonians 3:2And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:17Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
- James 5:8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
- 1 Peter 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
- 2 Peter 1:12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
- Revelation 3:2Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
στηρίζω,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1207, etc.)]: future -ίξω[NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.52 (variant), NT.1Pet.5.10)], -ίσω [LXX (LXX.Sir.38.34, LXX.Jer.17.5, -ιῶLXX.Sir.6.37, LXX.Jer.24.6)]: aorist ἐστήριξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.443)], Epic dialect στήριξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 498)]; infinitive στηρίξαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.434, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.192, “PSI” 5.452.3 (4th c.AD))]; participle στηρίξας [LXX+5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.57; _optative_ στηρίξειεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49; ἐστήρισα LXX.Gen.27.37, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.98; _imperative_ στηρισάτω “Anthologia Graeca” 14.72)]:—middle, aorist ἐστηριξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.242, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 11, etc. (see. below);)] later -ισάμην [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Isa.59.16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 11)]: future στηρίξομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.35)]:—passive, future στηριχθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 9.16)]: aorist ἐστηρίχθην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.22, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 3, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.126)]: perfect ἐστήριγμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 779, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.3, etc.)]; infinitive ἐστηρίσθαι [LXX (LXX.1Ki.26.19)]: pluperfect ἐστήρικτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.111, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 218, etc. (Cf. στῆριγξ, σκηρίπτομαι))]:—make fast, prop, fix, [ἴριδας] ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε sets rainbows in the cloud, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.28; οὐρανῷ ἐστήριξε κάρη, of Eris, 4.443)]; στηρίζειν αὐτὸ αὑτό φησι τὸ ἄπειρον (i.e. Anaxagoras) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 205b2, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.61; σ. σήματ᾽ ἐν οὐρανῷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 10)]; so probably, [λίθον] Ζεὺς στήριξε κατὰ χθονός he set the stone fast in the ground, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 498; βάσιν ἐστήριξαν 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.49; λίθον διορίζοντα ὅρους.. στηριχθῆναι ἐκέλευσαν “OGI” 769 (Palestine, 3rd-4th c.AD).)]
2 support, σίτῳ τινά [LXX (LXX.Gen.27.37)]; feed up a patient, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.192; σ. τὴν δύναμιν εὐστομάχοις τροφαῖς [prev. author] 18(2).34, compare 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.1)]: metaphorically, confirm, establish, τὴν ἀρχήν [NT+2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.98; τοὺς ἀδελφούς NT.Luke.22.32, cf. NT.2Thes.2.17, NT.1Pet.5.10)]; corroborate, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.57.)]
3 middle, ground, establish for oneself, κόσμον ἑαῖς στηρίξατο βουλαῖς [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 299; πόδα ἐπὶ γαίης “Anthologia Graeca” 14.72)]; πόντος στηρίξατο κῦμα νήνεμον settled its wave into a calm, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work]9.271 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus).)]
B passive and middle, to be firmly set or fixed, stand fast, οὐδὲ πόδεσσιν εἶχε στηρίξασθαι he could not get a firm footing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.242, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 11; οὐδαμῇ ἐστήρικτο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 218)]; [δώματα] κίοσιν ἀργυρέοισι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται the house is lifted up to heaven on pillars, [Refs 7th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 779; ὀρθὴ δ᾽ ἐς ὀρθὸν αἰθέρ᾽ ἐστηρίζετο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1073; στηριχθεὶς ἐπὶ γῆς 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.22; πρὸς τῇ γῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 376b23 (assuming variant))]; ὅσοι ἐστηρίξαντο τῇ πτέρνῃ ἰσχυρῶς πηδήσαντες light heavily on it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 11, compare “Art.” 86)]; ὕβον, ἐφ᾽ οὗ ἐστήρικται τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα is steadied, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 499a17)]; ἐστηριγμένα [ἔχειν] τὰ σπλάγχνα supported, opposed to κρεμάμενα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.570)]; ἄμπελος κάμακι σ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.731 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); Ἀσκληπιὸν -ιζόμενον βάκτρῳ “IG” 42(1).88.9 (Epid., 2nd c.AD))]; of the fixed stars, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 230, 274, etc.)]; opposed to ἀκοντίζεσθαι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395b4; λίθος ἐστήρικται 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 23)]; χάσμα μέγα ἐστ. [NT (NT.Luke.16.26)]; of places, merely to be situated, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 204.)]
B.2 metaphorically, κακὸν κακῷ ἐστήρικτο evil was set upon evil, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.111)]; τί τοι χόλος ἐστήρικτα; [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.816)]; δέκατος μεὶς οὐρανῷ ἐστήρικτο the tenth month was set in heaven, [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 11)]; of a person, ὅπου.. στηρίζει ποτέ wheresoever thou art tarrying, art settled, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 194 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅροι ἐστηριγμένοι fixed principles, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus)] “*Geometry texts” 3.25; ἀνάγκη στηριχθῆναι τὸ ν ¯ must be firmly pronounced, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22.)]
B.3 of diseases,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (= below 11.2, μέχρις ἂν [οἱ νοσοποιοὶ χυμοὶ] ἔν τινι τῶν ἀσθενεστέρων στηριχθῶσιν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.126, compare 789,855, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.5.)]
B.II active intransitive in same sense, οὐδέ πῃ εἶχον.. στηρίξαι ποσὶν ἔμπεδον.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.434)]; κῦμ᾽ οὐρανῷ στηρίζον a wave rising up to heaven, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1207: _metaphorically_, οὐρανῷ στηρίζον.. κλέος [prev. author] “Ba.” 972)]; πρὸς οὐρανὸν καὶ γαῖαν ἐστήριξε φῶς[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1083, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 6.)]
B.II.2 of diseases, fix, settle, determine to a particular part, ὁπότε εἰς τὴν καρδίαν στηρίξειεν (i.e. ἡ νόσος) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49; ἐνταῦθα σ. ἡ νοῦσος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.33; εἰ.. ἐς τὸ ὀστέον στηρίξειε τὸ βέλος [prev. author] “VC” 12; compare στήριξις 2.)]
B.II.3 of planetary phases, pause, stand still, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 12.23, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.76d, Theo Sm.p.147 H., 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 75, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 183.1, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “G.” 2.)]
B.II.4 metaphorically, ἐπὶ δόγματος σ. hold fast to an opinion, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.136.)]
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1207, etc.)]: future -ίξω[NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.52 (variant), NT.1Pet.5.10)], -ίσω [LXX (LXX.Sir.38.34, LXX.Jer.17.5, -ιῶLXX.Sir.6.37, LXX.Jer.24.6)]: aorist ἐστήριξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.443)], Epic dialect στήριξα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 498)]; infinitive στηρίξαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.434, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.192, “PSI” 5.452.3 (4th c.AD))]; participle στηρίξας [LXX+5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.57; _optative_ στηρίξειεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49; ἐστήρισα LXX.Gen.27.37, 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.98; _imperative_ στηρισάτω “Anthologia Graeca” 14.72)]:—middle, aorist ἐστηριξάμην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.242, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 11, etc. (see. below);)] later -ισάμην [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Isa.59.16, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 11)]: future στηρίξομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.35)]:—passive, future στηριχθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 9.16)]: aorist ἐστηρίχθην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.22, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 3, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.126)]: perfect ἐστήριγμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 779, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 3.3, etc.)]; infinitive ἐστηρίσθαι [LXX (LXX.1Ki.26.19)]: pluperfect ἐστήρικτο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.111, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 218, etc. (Cf. στῆριγξ, σκηρίπτομαι))]:—make fast, prop, fix, [ἴριδας] ἐν νέφεϊ στήριξε sets rainbows in the cloud, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.28; οὐρανῷ ἐστήριξε κάρη, of Eris, 4.443)]; στηρίζειν αὐτὸ αὑτό φησι τὸ ἄπειρον (i.e. Anaxagoras) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 205b2, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.61; σ. σήματ᾽ ἐν οὐρανῷ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 10)]; so probably, [λίθον] Ζεὺς στήριξε κατὰ χθονός he set the stone fast in the ground, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 498; βάσιν ἐστήριξαν 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.49; λίθον διορίζοντα ὅρους.. στηριχθῆναι ἐκέλευσαν “OGI” 769 (Palestine, 3rd-4th c.AD).)]
2 support, σίτῳ τινά [LXX (LXX.Gen.27.37)]; feed up a patient, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.192; σ. τὴν δύναμιν εὐστομάχοις τροφαῖς [prev. author] 18(2).34, compare 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.1)]: metaphorically, confirm, establish, τὴν ἀρχήν [NT+2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Bella Civilia” 1.98; τοὺς ἀδελφούς NT.Luke.22.32, cf. NT.2Thes.2.17, NT.1Pet.5.10)]; corroborate, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.57.)]
3 middle, ground, establish for oneself, κόσμον ἑαῖς στηρίξατο βουλαῖς [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 299; πόδα ἐπὶ γαίης “Anthologia Graeca” 14.72)]; πόντος στηρίξατο κῦμα νήνεμον settled its wave into a calm, [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work]9.271 (1st c.AD: Apollonides Epigrammaticus).)]
B passive and middle, to be firmly set or fixed, stand fast, οὐδὲ πόδεσσιν εἶχε στηρίξασθαι he could not get a firm footing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.242, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Eumenes” 11; οὐδαμῇ ἐστήρικτο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 218)]; [δώματα] κίοσιν ἀργυρέοισι πρὸς οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται the house is lifted up to heaven on pillars, [Refs 7th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Th.” 779; ὀρθὴ δ᾽ ἐς ὀρθὸν αἰθέρ᾽ ἐστηρίζετο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1073; στηριχθεὶς ἐπὶ γῆς 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.22; πρὸς τῇ γῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 376b23 (assuming variant))]; ὅσοι ἐστηρίξαντο τῇ πτέρνῃ ἰσχυρῶς πηδήσαντες light heavily on it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 11, compare “Art.” 86)]; ὕβον, ἐφ᾽ οὗ ἐστήρικται τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα is steadied, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 499a17)]; ἐστηριγμένα [ἔχειν] τὰ σπλάγχνα supported, opposed to κρεμάμενα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.570)]; ἄμπελος κάμακι σ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.731 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); Ἀσκληπιὸν -ιζόμενον βάκτρῳ “IG” 42(1).88.9 (Epid., 2nd c.AD))]; of the fixed stars, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 230, 274, etc.)]; opposed to ἀκοντίζεσθαι, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 395b4; λίθος ἐστήρικται 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 23)]; χάσμα μέγα ἐστ. [NT (NT.Luke.16.26)]; of places, merely to be situated, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 204.)]
B.2 metaphorically, κακὸν κακῷ ἐστήρικτο evil was set upon evil, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.111)]; τί τοι χόλος ἐστήρικτα; [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.816)]; δέκατος μεὶς οὐρανῷ ἐστήρικτο the tenth month was set in heaven, [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 11)]; of a person, ὅπου.. στηρίζει ποτέ wheresoever thou art tarrying, art settled, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 194 (Lyric poetry))]; ὅροι ἐστηριγμένοι fixed principles, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus)] “*Geometry texts” 3.25; ἀνάγκη στηριχθῆναι τὸ ν ¯ must be firmly pronounced, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22.)]
B.3 of diseases,[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (= below 11.2, μέχρις ἂν [οἱ νοσοποιοὶ χυμοὶ] ἔν τινι τῶν ἀσθενεστέρων στηριχθῶσιν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.126, compare 789,855, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων ὀξέων παθῶν” 1.5.)]
B.II active intransitive in same sense, οὐδέ πῃ εἶχον.. στηρίξαι ποσὶν ἔμπεδον.. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.434)]; κῦμ᾽ οὐρανῷ στηρίζον a wave rising up to heaven, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1207: _metaphorically_, οὐρανῷ στηρίζον.. κλέος [prev. author] “Ba.” 972)]; πρὸς οὐρανὸν καὶ γαῖαν ἐστήριξε φῶς[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 1083, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Sulla” 6.)]
B.II.2 of diseases, fix, settle, determine to a particular part, ὁπότε εἰς τὴν καρδίαν στηρίξειεν (i.e. ἡ νόσος) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49; ἐνταῦθα σ. ἡ νοῦσος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.33; εἰ.. ἐς τὸ ὀστέον στηρίξειε τὸ βέλος [prev. author] “VC” 12; compare στήριξις 2.)]
B.II.3 of planetary phases, pause, stand still, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 12.23, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.76d, Theo Sm.p.147 H., 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 75, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 183.1, 4th c.AD: Paulus Alexandrinus Astrologus “G.” 2.)]
B.II.4 metaphorically, ἐπὶ δόγματος σ. hold fast to an opinion, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 2.136.)]