4747 - stoicheion

Strong's Concordance

Original word: στοιχεῖον
Transliteration: stoicheion
Definition (short): elemental
Definition (full): one of a row, a letter (of the alphabet), the elements (of knowledge)

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from the same as stoicheó
Definition: one of a row, hence a letter (of the alphabet), by ext. the elements (of knowledge)
NASB Translation: elemental things (2), elementary principles (2), elementary* (1), elements (2), principles (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of stoicheo; something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively) -- element, principle, rudiment.

see GREEK stoicheo

References

Strong's 4747: 8 Occurrences
KJV: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
NASB: So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.
KJV: But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
NASB: But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?
KJV: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
NASB: See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.
KJV: Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
NASB: If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,
KJV: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
NASB: For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.