stereōmem

Strong’sG4733

firmness, steadfastness

stem stereōm-once in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

στερέωμα, -τος, τό

(< στερεόω), [in LXX: Ge 1:6 ff., Ps 18 (19):1 150:1, Ez 1:22-26 10:1 13:5, Da LXX, TH 3:(56), 12:3 (רָקִיעַ), De 33:26 (שׁחק), Ps 17 (18):2 70 (71):3 (סֶלַע), Es 9:29, I Es 8:78 (82), Si 43:1, 8, I Mac 9:14 *;]

a solid body;

(a) a support, foundation (Arist., al.); metaph., strength (Ps 17 70, I Mac, ll. c.); steadfastness, firmness: τ. πίστεως, Col 2:5;

(b) the dome of heaven (believed to be a solid canopy), the firmament (LXX).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4733 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidster-eh'-o-mah

something established, i.e. (abstractly) confirmation (stability)

Fromfrom G4732;

King Jamesstedfastness.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

στερέ-ωμα, ατος, τό,
solid body, Refs 5th c.BC+
b ἄϋλα σ. immaterial solids, Refs 5th c.AD+
2 foundation or framework, e.g. the skeleton, on which the body is, as it were, built, Refs 4th c.BC+; στερεώματος ἕνεκα τοῦ περιτρήτου to strengthen it, Refs 2nd c.BC+: metaphorically, solid part, strength of an army, LXX; also, ratification, ἐπιστολῆςLXX; steadfastness, τῆς πίστεως NT
3 ={στεῖρα} (of a ship), Refs 4th c.BC+
4 firmament, i.e. the sky, the heaven above, LXX+3rd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

steadfastness1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	stereōmem	stereōmeim
of, belonging to genitive	stereōmeu	stereōmeiu
to, for dative	stereōme	stereōmei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

stereōmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

stereōme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

stereōmem1×

Colossians 2:5“steadfastness”… bleparōntos vu tan taxian kai tem stereōmem tau eis Christon pistiau vu.… delight to see your orderly condition and firm faith in Christ.