Strong G4747 στοιχεῖον stoicheion · principle

Colossians

1. Colossians 2:8
   Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2. Colossians 2:20
   Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,