# στοιχεῖον (stoicheion)

Strong’s G4747. 7 New Testament occurrences.

(a) plur: the heavenly bodies, (b) a rudiment, an element, a rudimentary principle, an elementary rule.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/stoicheion-g4747

## Occurrences

- [Galatians 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/4/3) — Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
- [Galatians 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 bond…
- [Colossians 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Colossians 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,
- [Hebrews 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 a…
- [2 Peter 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ferven…
- [2 Peter 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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?