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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Greek - English Dictionary

G4747 - Principles

Strong's No.:G4747

Greek:στοιχεῖον

Transliteration:stoicheion

Phonetic:stoy-khi'-on

Word Origin:Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G4748

Bible Usage:element principle rudiment.

Part of Speech:Noun Neuter

Strongs
Definition:

something orderly in arrangement that is (by implication) a serial (basal fundamental: initial) constituent (literally) proposition (figuratively)


Thayers
Definition:

1. any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal

a. the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds

b. the elements from which all things have come, the material causes of the universe

c. the heavenly bodies, either as parts of the heavens or (as others think) because in them the elements of man, life and destiny were supposed to reside

d. the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental principles of any art, science, or discipline

1. i.e. of mathematics, Euclid's geometry


Bible References:
Principles

Translation
Occurrences:
elements ( 4 )
principles ( 1 )
rudiments ( 2 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.