Word

Στωϊκός

Stōïkós · G4770 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. Stoic, one who adheres to Stoic philosophy

    Pertaining to the philosophical system of the Greek philosopher Zeno, who taught that people should be free from excessive joy or grief and submit without complaint to necessity

    Examples

    Acts 17:18 And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers as well were conversing with him. Some were saying, “What could this scavenger of tidbits want to say?” Others, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities,”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Stoic, one who adheres to Stoic philosophy11.97
The adjective names adherents of a specific Greek philosophical school. Paul is said to have conversed with “some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers” in Athens (Acts 17:18).
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

στοά stoá · G4745 · porch, portico · 4×ΣτωϊκόςStōïkós · G4770
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon [, so Lachmann Tdf. for Στωϊκός, which see] G4770 — Στωϊκός ((WH Στωϊκός), L T Στοϊκός,…
[, so Lachmann Tdf. for Στωϊκός, which see]
G4770 — Στωϊκός
((WH Στωϊκός), L T Στοϊκός, see Tdf.s note on Acts as below; WH's Appendix, p. 152), Στωικη, Στωικον, Stoic, pertaining to the Stole philosophy, the author of which, Zeno of Citium, taught at Athens in the portico called ἡ ποικίλη στοά: οἱ Στωικοι φιλοσοφοι, Acts 17:18. (((Diogenes Laërtius 7, 5; others))

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

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