noun · feminine
stoas
Greekστοά (stoa)
Strong’sG4745
a colonnade, portico
stem sto-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
στοά, -ᾶς, ἡ
[in LXX: Ez 40:18 (רִצְפָּה), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4745 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsto-ah'
a colonnade or interior piazza
Fromprobably from G2476;
King Jamesporch.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | stoas | stoais |
| object accusative | stoan | stoain1×στοὰς |
| direct address vocative | stoar | stoair |
| of, belonging to genitive | stoau | stoaiu |
| to, for dative | stoa2×στοᾷ | stoai |
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
stoa 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
Words built on the same stem
Where it appears
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
stoa“portico”to, fordative singular2×
John 10:23“colonnade”kai peripatate tos Iēsus en te hiere en ta stoa tou Solomōnou.and Jesus was walking in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
Acts 3:11“portico”Kratarōtou de autou ton Petron kai ton Iōannon suntrechata pantos tos laos pros autoin epi ta stoa ta kalirōta Solomōnou ekthambois.While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
stoain“porticoes”objectaccusative plural1×
John 5:2“porticoes”atō de en tei Hierosolumei epi ta probatika kolumbēthras tas epilegirōtas Hebraisti Bēthesda, pente stoain echarōtas;Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.