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Lexicon :: Strong's G4731 - stereos

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στερεός
Transliteration
stereos (Key)
Pronunciation
ster-eh-os'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:609,1077

Strong’s Definitions

στερεός stereós, ster-eh-os'; from G2476; stiff, i.e. solid, stable (literally or figuratively):—stedfast, strong, sure.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G4731 in the following manner: strong (2x), sure (1x), stedfast (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G4731 in the following manner: strong (2x), sure (1x), stedfast (1x).

  1. strong, firm, immovable, solid, hard, rigid

    1. in a bad sense, cruel, stiff, stubborn, hard

    2. in a good sense, firm, steadfast

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
στερεός stereós, ster-eh-os'; from G2476; stiff, i.e. solid, stable (literally or figuratively):—stedfast, strong, sure.
STRONGS G4731:
στερεός, στερεά, στερεόν (Vanicek, p. 1131; Curtius, § 222), from Homer down, firm, solid, compact, hard, rigid: λίθος, Homer Odyssey 19, 494; strong, firm, immovable, θεμέλιος, 2 Timothy 2:19; τροφή, solid food, Hebrews 5:12, 14; στερεωτερα τροφή, Diodorus 2, 4; Epictetus diss. 2, 16, 39; tropically, in a bad sense, cruel, stiff, stubborn, hard; often so in Greek writings from Homer down: κραδιη στερεωτερη λιθοιο, Odyssey 23, 103; in a good sense, firm, steadfast: τῇ πίστει, as respects faith, firm of faith (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 31, 6 a.), 1 Peter 5:9 (see στερεόω, at the end).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Timothy
2:19
Hebrews
5:12; 5:14
1 Peter
5:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4731 matches the Greek στερεός (stereos),
which occurs 15 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:17 - They made the lampstand of pure gold. They hammered out its base and shaft, and made its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - One bud was under the first pair of branches extending from the lampstand, a second bud under the second pair, and a third bud under the third pair—six branches in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:4 - This is how the lampstand was made: It was made of hammered gold—from its base to its blossoms. The lampstand was made exactly like the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:8 - We’re doomed! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? They are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 35:10 - My whole being will exclaim, “Who is like you, LORD? You rescue the poor from those too strong for them, the poor and needy from those who rob them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:21 - They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from the fearful presence of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:28 - Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hooves seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:5 - It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms— as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:7 - Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:1 - “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:18 - Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:14 - All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:11 - For the LORD will deliver Jacob and redeem them from the hand of those stronger than they.
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