Strong's Concordance stoa: a portico Original Word: στοά, ᾶς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: stoa Phonetic Spelling: (sto-ah') Short Definition: a colonnade, portico Definition: a colonnade, portico. HELPS Word-studies 4745 stoá – a pillar, supporting a covered-colonnade (like in the Temple precinct); a portico, usually open on one side so people could congregate and talk. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4745: στοάστοά, στοάς, ἡ, a portico, a covered colonnade where people can stand or walk protected from the weather and the heat of the sun: John 5:2; στοά Σολομῶνος, a porch or 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 times of king Agrippa, to whom the care of the temple was intrusted by the emperor Claudius, and who on account of its antiquity did not dare to demolish and build it anew; so Josephus relates, Antiquities 20, 9, 7; (but on 'Solomon's Porch' cf. B. D., under the word Strong's Exhaustive Concordance porch, colonnadeProbably from histemi; a colonnade or interior piazza -- porch. see GREEK histemi Forms and Transliterations εστοίβασεν εστοιβασμένη στοα στοά στοᾷ στοαί στοας στοάς στοὰς στοιβάσατέ στοιβάσει στοιβάσουσι stoa stoā̂i stoas stoàsLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 47454 Occurrences στοᾷ — 3 Occ. στοὰς — 1 Occ. John 5:2 N-AFP GRK: Βηθζαθά πέντε στοὰς ἔχουσα NAS: having five porticoes. KJV: having five porches. INT: Bethesda five porches having John 10:23 N-DFS Acts 3:11 N-DFS Acts 5:12 N-DFS |
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