noun · feminine
stoas
Strong’sG4745
a colonnade, portico
stem sto-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 6th c.BC+; also στοιά (in anapaestic verse) Refs 5th c.BC+, and in some dialect Inscrr., Refs 4th c.BC+; στωϊά Refs 3rd c.BC+:— roofed colonnade, cloister, NT+5th c.BC+
II at Athens,
II.1 storehouse, magazine, especially for corn, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 ἡ στοιὰ ἡ βασίλειος the court where the βασιλεύς sat, Refs; ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως σ. Refs 5th c.BC+; σ. βασιλική at Thera, Refs
II.3 ἡ στοὰ ἡ ποικίλη, see at {ποικίλος} 11.3: also ἡ σ. alone, Refs 5th c.BC+; so οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς σ., of the Stoics (since Zeno taught there), Refs 2nd c.AD+; οἱ ἐκ τῆς σ. Refs. alone, the Stoic school, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.4 of other porticoes, ἡ σ. ἡ τῶν Ἑρμῶν Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ μακρὰ σ. Refs 4th c.BC+; ἡ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ἐλευθερίου σ. Refs 5th c.BC+
III long roof or shed used in sieges, Refs 3rd c.BC+:—gallery, communication trench, whether above ground or excavated, Refs 3rd c.BC+
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.
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 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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
stoa“portico”to, fordative singular2×
John 10:23… Iēsus en te hiere en ta stoa tou Solomōnou.… in the temple courts in Solomon’s Colonnade.
Acts 3:11“portico”… tos laos pros autoin epi ta stoa ta kalorōnta Solomōnou ekthambois.… 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”… kolumbēthras tas epilegorōntas Hebraisti Bēthesda, pente stoain echarōntas;… Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.