στερεός
stereós · G4731 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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solid, firm
Pertaining to being solid or firm in contrast with that which is soft or liquid
Examples2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His;” and, “Everyone who names the name of the Lord is to keep away from wickedness.”
Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.
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to be firm, to be strong
Pertaining to being firm and steadfast in one’s attitudes or beliefs
Examples1 Peter 5:9 So resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brothers and sisters who are in the world.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- מִקְשָׁה miqshâh · H4749 · hammered work, beaten work, melon field
- מִקְשָׁה (miqshâh, H4749) denotes physical solidity specifically achieved through hammering/beating into a unified piece (typically of metalwork), while στερεός (stereós, G4731) expresses the broader concept of firmness/solidity in both physical and metaphorical registers (firm food, solid foundation, steadfast faith); the Hebrew term represents the concrete metallurgical subset of the Greek term's wider semantic range.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To be firm, to be strong74.21
- The adjective describes figurative firmness of character or conviction. Peter urges believers to resist the devil, “firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brothers and sisters” (1 Peter 5:9).
- Solid, firm79.7
- The same adjective also describes literal physical solidity, here of food. The writer to the Hebrews contrasts milk with “solid food” reserved “for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish good from evil” (Hebrews 5:14).
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon στερεά, στερεόν (Vanicek, p. 1131; Curtius, § 222), from Homer down, firm, solid,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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