# G4747 στοιχεῖον

στοιχεῖον (stoicheîon), Strong’s G4747: something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively) KJV…

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*stoicheîon* — something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively)

KJV: element, principle, rudiment

Occurs 9 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Galatians 4:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/4?v=3) — So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
- [Galatians 4:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/4?v=9) — But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and…
- [Colossians 2:8](https://besorah.bible/besorah/colossians/2?v=8) — Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after…
- [Colossians 2:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/colossians/2?v=20) — If you died with Messiah from the elemental spirits of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject…
- [Hebrews 5:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/5?v=12) — For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first…
- [2 Peter 3:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/3?v=10) — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and…
- [2 Peter 3:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-peter/3?v=12) — looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 7:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/7?v=17) — For he himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the structure of the universe and the…
- [Wisdom of Solomon 19:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/19?v=18) — For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm, even so the elements, changing their order one with…