stereos

Strong’sG4731

solid, firm, steadfast

stem stere-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 of 26 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.

στερεός, -ά, -όν

[in LXX: Nu 8:4 (מִקְשָׁה); σ. πέτρα, Is 5:28 (צַר), etc.;]

hard, firm, solid: τροψή, He 5:12, 14; θεμέλιος, fig., II Ti 2:19. Metaph.,

(a) in bad sense, hard, cruel (Hom., al.);

(b) in good sense, steadfast, firm: τ. πίστει, I Pe 5:9.†

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

Strong’s G4731 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidster-eh-os'

stiff, i.e. solid, stable (literally or figuratively)

Fromfrom G2476;

King Jamesstedfast, strong, sure.

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

στερεός, ά, όν,
also στερρός (which see), firm, solid, σ. λίθος ἠὲ σίδηρος Refs 8th c.BC+; αἰχμὴ σ. πᾶσα χρυσέη all of solid gold, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ -ώτερα τῶν ὀστέων, opposed to τὰ ἀραιότερα, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ σ., opposed to κενόν, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to μαλθακός, Refs 5th c.BC+; κυσὶ σ. καὶ ἰσχνοῖς, opposed to προβάτοις πίοσι καὶ ἁπαλοῖς, Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. κέρας solid, opposed to κοῖλον, Refs 4th c.BC+; στερεὰ τροφή solid food, NT+1st c.BC+; τὸ σ. σῶμα, opposed to ὁ χυλός, Refs 2nd c.AD+; σ. κοιλίη costive, Refs 5th c.BC+. adverb -ρεῶς firmly, fast, κατέδησαν Refs 8th c.BC+
b of money, standard, of full value, ἀργυρίου στερεὰ τάλαντα Refs 2nd c.BC+; so perhaps of sums due in kind, πυροῦ στερεοῦ Refs 2nd c.BC+; and of linear and square measures, τῆς προσούσης αὐλῆς πηχῶν σ. ὀκτὼ τὸ ἐπιβάλλον αὐτῷ μέρος ἥμισυ πήχεις σ. τέσσερας eight (four) standard cubits, Refs 2nd c.BC+; πόδες σ. standard feet, Refs; μέτρημα σ. Refs 3rd c.BC+
c ὠρύγη ποταμὸς ἐπὶ τὰ τρία σ. the ditch was restored by digging to its three normal dimensions, Refs 1st c.AD+, compare 673, where the Latin version has at tria soldu (m).
2 metaphorically, stiff, stubborn, στερεοῖς ἐπέεσσι, opposed to μειλιχίοις, Refs 8th c.BC+. adverb -ρεῶς, ἀποειπεῖν Refs 8th c.BC+
3 later, hard, stubborn, cruel, πῦρ Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῦτο ἤδη -ώτερον harder, more difficult, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of language, τὸ εὔτονον καὶ σ. solidity, Refs 1st c.BC+
5 σ. ζῴδια, i.e. productive of settled conditions, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II of bodies and quantities, solid, cubic, opposed to ἐπίπεδος (plane), Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. γωνία a solid angle, Refs 3rd c.BC+; σ. ἀριθμός a cubic number, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὰ σ. cubic numbers, representing bodies of three dimensions, Refs 5th c.BC+: dative singular στερεῷ in the third power, Refs. (Cf. Sanskrit sthirás 'firm, hard, solid', OHG. star 'rigid', ORefs 5th c.BC+ starian 'stare fixedly'.)

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.

solid3×steadfast1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	stereos1×στερεὸς	stereas1×στερεὰ	stereem	stereois1×στερεοὶ	stereais	stereeim
object accusative	stereon	sterean		stereoin	stereain
direct address vocative	stereor	sterear		stereoir	stereair
of, belonging to genitive	stereou	stereau1×στερεᾶς	stereeu	stereoiu	stereaiu	stereeiu
to, for dative	stereo	sterea	steree	stereoi	stereai	stereei

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

sterestem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

stere 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.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

stereos“solid”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Timothy 2:19“solid”tos mentoi stereos themelios tou theou stēatē, echarōntos tan …Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows …

stereas“solid”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 5:14teleioiu de atō tas stereas trofēas, toiu dia tan hexian teim …But solid food is for the mature, who …

stereau“solid”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Hebrews 5:12… kai genavē chreian echarōntois galakteu, ouk stereau trofēau.… God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!

stereois“steadfast”subjectnominative plural1×

1 Peter 5:9“steadfast”ho antistēavar stereois ta pistia, oidarēntois teim auteim teiu …Resist him, standing firm in your faith and in the knowledge that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kinds of …