noun · feminine

stoas

GreekΣτοά (stoa)

Strong’sG4745

a colonnade, portico

stem sto-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

portico1×

What it means

στοά, -ᾶς, ἡ

[in LXX: Ez 40:18 (רִצְפָּה), etc.;]

a portico: Jo 5:2; used of the covered colonnade in the Temple (EV, porch), Jo 10:23, Ac 3:11 5:12 †

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	stoain
direct address vocative	stoar	stoair
of, belonging to genitive	stoau	stoaiu
to, for dative	stoa1×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

stostem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

stoas — στοά, a colonnade, portico

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

stoa“portico”to, fordative singular1×

Acts 5:12“portico”Dia de taiu cheiraiu toiu apostoloiu ginete sēmeim kai terateim polleim en to lao; kai ale homothumadōs hapantois en ta Stoa Solomōnou;The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.