G4747

στοιχεῖον

stoicheion

Neuter noun · From a presumed derivative of the base of στοιχέω (G4748)

Neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of G4748; something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively):—element, principle, rudiment.

Outline

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

the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds
the elements from which all things have come, the material causes of the universe
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
the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental principles of any art, science, or discipline

i.e. of mathematics, Euclid's geometry

Usages

Galatians 4:3

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

Breakdown

elements of the world Represents everything that we were doing prior to coming into the truth.

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Galatians 4:9

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?

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Colossians 2:8

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.

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Colossians 2:20

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,

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Hebrews 5:12

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.

Precepts

Acts 8:30 1 Corinthians 3:1

Ecclesiasticus 6:34 Ecclesiasticus 7:14 Ecclesiasticus 7:29 Ecclesiasticus 32:9 Romans 10:15 1 Timothy 5:17 Hebrews 13:17

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2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Breakdown

great noise The sound made by the ICBMs hitting parts of the earth. Note, the ICBMs will only hit parts of the earth (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

Precepts

Revelation 16:15

Destruction

Isaiah 13:19 Isaiah 24:6 Isaiah 26:20 Isaiah 34:2 Isaiah 66:15 Jeremiah 15:2-3 Jeremiah 49:17 Jeremiah 50:39 Ezekiel 21:9 Joel 2:1 Joel 2:3 Amos 5:18 Zephaniah 1:14-18 2 Esdras 15:11 Matthew 10:34 Matthew 24:37 Revelation 9:12

Job 20:24 Psalms 7:13 Psalms 21:9 Isaiah 9:5 Isaiah 13:13 Isaiah 34:4 Isaiah 54:16 Jeremiah 4:7 Jeremiah 50:14 Nahum 3:3 Zechariah 14:12 Malachi 4:1 2 Esdras 16:13 Revelation 6:13-14 Revelation 9:16 Revelation 11:13

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2 Peter 3:12

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

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