G4745

στοά

stoa

Feminine noun · Probably from ἵστημι (G2476)

Probably from G2476; a colonnade or interior piazza:—porch.

Outline

a portico, a covered colonnade where people can stand or walk protected from the weather and the heat of the sun
the portico built by Solomon in the eastern part of the temple (which in the temple's destruction by the Babylonians was left uninjured, and remained down to the time of King Agrippa, to whom the care of the temple was entrusted by the emperor Claudius, and who on account of its antiquity dare not demolish it and build anew.

Usages

John 5:2

Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.

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John 10:23

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

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Acts 3:11

And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

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Acts 5:12

¶ And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

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