στοιχ-

στοιχ-ευτής, οῦ, ὁ, =

A elementarius, Gloss.

στοιχ-έω,

A to be drawn up in a line or row, οὐδ' ἐγκαταλείψω τὸν παραστάτην, ὅτῳ ἂν στοιχήσω beside whom I stand in battle,—from the oath of Athenian citizens, ap.Stob.4.1.48, cf. Poll.8.105; move in line, X.Cyr.6.3.34, Eq.Mag.5.7; to be in rows, of leaves or joints, Thphr.HP3.18.5, 3.5.3; κατὰ τὸ στοιχοῦν in sequence, Arist.Int. 19b24.

2 correspond,

ὅπως ἀεὶ ἡ ἡμέρα στοιχῇ καθ' ἑκάστην πόλιν OGI458.52

(i B.C.).

3 to be satisfactory to one,

στοιχεῖ μοι πάντα τὰ προγεγραμμένα BGU 317.14

(vi A.D.), cf. Sammelb. 6258 (v/vi A.D.), etc.

II c. dat., fit, [

καταστρωτῆρα] στοιχοῦντα τοῖς κειμένοις IG7.3073.153

(Lebad., ii B.C.): metaph., to be in line with, walk by, agree with, submit to,

τῇ τῆς συγκλήτου προθέσει Plb.28.5.6

;

διὰ τῶν ἔργων στοιχεῖν αὐτοσαυτῷ SIG734.6

(Delph., i B.C.);

τῇ πρός τινα εὐνοίᾳ BCH55.44

(Odessus, i B.C.);

ταῖς πλείοσι γνώμαις D.H.6.65

;

τῷ νομίσματι S.E.M.1.178

; τοῖς προειρημένοις φιλοσόφοις ib. 11.59;

Πνεύματι Ep.Gal.5.25

, cf. Ep.Phil.3.16;

τοῖς ἴχνεσι τῆς πίστεως Ep.Rom.4.12

; στοίχεις ([dialect] Aeol. [tense] pres. part.)

τοῖς προϋπαργμένοισι IGRom. 4.1302

(Cyme, i B.C./i A.D.);

ἠθέλησεν στοιχοῦσαν τοῖς προπεπραγμένοις παρέχεσθαι τοῖς πολίταις τὴν αὑτοῦ διάληψιν OGI764.45

(Pergam., ii B.C.); μιᾷ ς. to be contented with one wife, Sch.Ar.Pl. 773;

στοιχῶν πᾶσιν ὑπέγραψα CPR 30 ii 41

(vi A.D.): abs.,

στοιχεῖν βουλόμενος καὶ τοῖς ἐκείνων ἴχνεσιν ἐπιβαίνειν SIG708.5

(Istropolis, ii B.C.); στοιχεῖς τὸν νόμον φυλάσσων observest it regularly, Act.Ap. 21.24.

στοιχ-ηγορέω,

A tell in regular order, A.Pers. 430.

στοιχ-ηδίς, Adv. = sq., Theognost.Can.163.

στοιχ-ηδόν, Adv.

A in a row, Arist.GA 770a26, Thphr.HP3.12.7, A.R.1.1004.

2 line by line, following the lines, Puchstein Epigr.Gr.p.7.

στοίχ-ημα, ατος, τό,

A deposit, Eust.1312.21.

στοιχ-ητέον,

A one must agree with, τινι Theognost.Can.98.

στοιχ-ητής, οῦ, ὁ, dub.cj.for στυχιτης,=

A stabilis, in Gloss.(fort. στυλίτης).

στοιχ-ιαῖος, α, ον,

A equal to one row or course, in masonry,

ὑπερτόναια.. πάχος στοιχιαῖα μῆκος ὀκτώποδα IG22.463.57

.

στοιχ-ίζω,

A set in a row, esp. set a row of poles with nets to drive the game into, X.Cyn.6.8; cf.

στοῖχος 11

, περιστοιχίζω:—[voice] Pass., to be set in rows, v.l. for ἐστιχ- in LXX Ez.42.3.

II order or arrange in system,

τρόπους μαντικῆς A.Pr. 484

.

στοιχ-ικός, ή, όν,

A serial,

ὁ τῆς ἑπταζώνου σ. λόγος

Cat. Cod.Astr.

7.113

.

στοιχ-ισμός, ὁ,

A surrounding with hunting-nets, Poll. 5.36.

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `to march in (in order), to march, to rise, to draw, to go' (ep. Ion. poet. Il., also Aeol. prose).

Other forms: ( στίχω Hdt. 3, 14; coni. Dind. in S. Ant. 1129 ex H.), aor. 2. στιχεῖν (aor. 1. περί-στειξας δ 277).

Compounds: Often w. prefix, e.g. ἀπο-, δια-, ἐπι-, προσ-. As 2. element e.g. in μονό-στιχος `consisting of one verse' (Plu.), e.g. τρί-στοιχος `consisting of three rows' (μ 91), - εί adv. `in three rows' ( 473), μετα-στοιχεί meaning unclear (Ψ 358 a. 757); σύ-στοιχος `belonging to the same row, coordinated, corresponding' (Arist. etc.).

Derivatives: From it, prob. as deverbative, but also related to στίχες (Leumann Hom. Wörter 185 f.), στιχάομαι, also w. περι-, συν-, `id.' in 3. pl. ipf. ἐστιχόωντο (Il., Theoc., Nonn.), pres. στιχόωνται (Orph.), act. στιχόωσι, ptc. n. pl. - όωντα (hell. a. late ep.); ὁμοστιχάει 3. sg. pres. `escorted' (Ο 635: *ὁμό-στιχος or for ὁμοῦ στ.?). -- Nouns. A. στίχ-ες pl., gen. sg. στιχ-ός f. `rank(s), file(s)', esp. of soldiers, `battle-array, line of battle' (ep. poet. Il.). -- B. στίχος m. `file, rank', of soldiers, trees, etc., often of words `line' in verse and prose (Att. etc.). στιχ-άς f. `id.' only in dat. pl. στιχάδεσσι ( Epigr.). Dim. - ίδιον (Plu.); - άριον `coat, tightly fitting garment' (pap.). Adj. - ινος, - ικός, - ήρης, - ηρός, adv. - ηδόν (late). Vb - ίζω `to arrange in rows' (LXX; v. l. στοιχ-) with - ιστής. - ισμός (Tz.), περι- στείχω = περιστοιχίζω (s.bel.; A.). -- C. στοῖχος m. `file or column of soldiers, choir members, ships etc., layer of building stones, row of trees, poles etc.' (IA.). From this στοιχ-άς f. `arranged in rows' ( ἐλᾶαι, Sol. ap. Poll. a.o.), - άδες ( νῆσοι) name of a group of islands near Massilia (A. R. a.o.); from this the plantname στοιχάς (Orph., Dsc.) after Strömberg 127 (with Dsc.), with - αδίτης οἶνος `wine spiced with s.' (Dsc.). Cultnames of Zeus resp. Athena: - αῖος (Thera), - αδεύς (Sikyon), - εία (Epid.) referring to the arrangement in phylai. Further adj. - ιαῖος `measuring one row' (Att. inscr.), - ικός (late); adv. - ηδόν (Arist. etc.), - ηδίς (Theognost.) `line by line'. Verbs: 1. στοιχ-έω (because of the meaning hardly deverbative with Schwyzer 720), also w. περι-, συν- a. o., `to form a row, to stand in file and rank, to match, to agree, to be content, to follow' (X., Att. inscr., Arist. hell. a. late); - ούντως `matching, consequent' (Galatia, Aug. time). 2. - ίζω, often w. περι-, also δια-, κατα-, `to arrange in a line, to order' (A. Pr. 484 a. 232, X. a.o.) with - ισμός (Poll.); περι- στείχω `to fence in all around with nets (net-poles), to ensnare' (D., Plb. etc.). -- D. στοιχεῖον, often pl. - εῖα n. `letters in freestanding, alphabetical form' (beside γράμματα `character, script'), also (arisen from this?) `lines, (systematic) dogmas, principles, (physical) element' (Pl., Arist. etc.), `heavenly bodies, elementary spirits, nature demons, magic means' (late a. Byz.); also `shadow-line' as time-measure (Att. com.; cf. σκιὰ ἀντίστοιχος E. Andr. 745) a.o.; prop. "object related to a row, entering a row, forming a part of a whole, member of a row" (on the formation cf. σημεῖον, μνημεῖον, ἐλεγεῖον a.o.); on the development of the meaning which is in many ways unclear Burkert Phil. 103, 167 ff. w. further extensive lit., esp. Diels Elementum (1899). Diff. Lagercrantz (s. Bq); to be rejected. - From it στοιχει-ώδης `belonging to the στοιχεῖα, elementary' (Arist. etc.), of barley `in several rows' as opposed to ἄ-στοιχος πυρός (Thphr.), so either = στοιχ-ώδης or miswritten for it. Denom. verb. στοιχει-όω `to introduce to the principles' (Chrysipp. a.o.), `to equip with magical powers, to charm' (Byz.; cf. Blum Eranos 44, 315ff.) with - ωσις, - ωμα, - ωτής, - ωτικός (Epicur., Phld. a.o.), - ωματικός (Ps.-Ptol.); cf. on this Mugler Dict. géom. 380 f.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1017] * steigh- `stride'

Etymology: Old inherited group with several representatives also in other idg. languages. The full grade thematic present στείχω agrees exactly to Germ. and Celtic forms, e.g. Goth. steigan ` steigen', OIr. tiagu `stride, go', IE *stéighō. Beside it Skt. has a zero grade nasal present stigh-no-ti `rise'; similar, inmeaning deviant, OCS po-stignǫ `get in, reach, hit' (length of the stemvowel secondary). A deviant meaning is also shown by the full grade yot-present Lit. steig-iù, inf. steĩg-ti `found, raise', also (obsolete) `hurry'; on this Fraenkel s. v. -- Further several nouns, esp. in Germ.: OHG steg m. ` Steg, small bridge', OWNo. stig n. `step' from PGm. * stiga-z, -n, IE * stigh-o-s (= στίχος), - o-m; OE stige -n. `going up, down' (i-stem from older rootnoun = στίχ-ες?). With oi-ablaut Alb. shtek `transit, entrance, road, hair-parting' (= στοῖχος), thus Goth. staiga, OHG steiga f. `mountain-path, road', Latv. staiga f. `course', cf. Lith. adv. staigà `suddenly' (would be Gr. *στοιχή) etc., s. WP. 2, 614 f., Pok. 1017 f., also W.-Hofmann s. vestīgium w. further forms a. lit.

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στίχος [ῐ], ὁ,

A row or file of soldiers, X.Lac.11.5,8, Eq.Mag.3.9, v.l. for στοιχ- in Cyr.8.3.9; of trees, Id.Oec.4.21, PFay.111.24 (i A.D.); of numbers, Pl.Phd. 104b; of the cells in a honey-comb, Arist.HA 624a11; course of masonry, SIG247 ii 72 (Delph., iv B.C.).

2 old name for λόχος, Ascl.Tact.2.2, cf. Ael.Tact.5.2, Arr.Tact.6.1.

II line of poetry, verse, Ar.Ra. 1239, Arr.Epict. 2.23.42, BGU 1026xxii 18 (iv A.D.), etc.; ἡρωϊκοὶ ς. Pl.Lg. 959a; τὸν βίον ἔθηκας εἰς στίχον, i.e. have described life in one line, Nicostr. Com.28; but used of a couplet, BMus.Inscr. 1074 ([place name] Coptos); defined by Heph.Poëm.1, cf. Sch.Heph.p.262 C.

b line of prose, of about the same length as the average hexameter verse, viz., about 15 or 16 syllables, used in reckoning the compass of a passage or work, D.H.Th.10,13,19,33, Gal.2.227, 5.656 (cf. 655), 10.781, 15.9, al., Anon. in Tht.3.32, Ath.13.585b, Men.Rh.p.434 S., PLond. in Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen Beiheft 61.88 (iii A.D.), PFlor.371.19, 23 (iv A.D.), Simp.in Cat.18.20; rarely used in citations, κατὰ τοὺς διακοσίους ς. D.L.7.33, cf. 187, 188; ὡς πρὸ σ' στίχων τοῦ τέλους Sch. Orib.4p.532, cf. p.534, al.

2 chapter of a book, Zos.Alch. p.213B.

III ἐκτὸς τοῦ ς.,= Lat. extra ordinem, OGI441.64 (Lagina, i B.C.).

IV Philos.,=

συστοιχία 11

, series, order, Plot.5.3.14 (v.l. στοῖχος); causal chain, Id.6.7.6 ( στοῖχος Volkmann).

τρι-στῐχία, ἡ,

A triple row, Gal.14.771.

2 union of three verses, τ. ἰαμβική Sch.Ar.Ra. 326 ([etym.] - στοιχ-).

στοιχεῖον, ου, τό (since Aristoph., X., Pla.; also BGU 959, 2) in our lit. only pl.

① basic components of someth., elements

ⓐ of substances underlying the natural world, the basic elements fr. which everything in the world is made and of which it is composed (Pla. et al.; PGM 4, 440; Wsd 7:17; 19:18; 4 Macc 12:13; Ath., R. 3 p. 51, 17), to disappear in the world conflagration at the end of time 2 Pt 3:10, 12 (Ath. 22, 3; lit. s.v. καυσόω). The four elements of the world (earth, air, fire, water) Hv 3, 13, 3 (cp. Diog. L. 7, 137 [Zeno the Stoic] ἔστι δὲ στοιχεῖον, ἐξ οὗ πρώτου γίνεται τὰ γινόμενα καὶ εἰς ὸ̔ ἔσχατον ἀναλύεται … τὸ πῦρ, τὸ ὕδωρ, ὁ ἀήρ, ἡ γῆ; Plut., Mor. 875c; Philo, Cher. 127 τὰ τέσσαρα στοιχεῖα; Jos., Ant. 3, 183.—JKroll, Die Lehren des Hermes Trismegistos 1914, 178ff; ESchweizer, JBL 107, ’88, 455–68). πῦρ … ὕδωρ … ἄλλο τι τῶν στοιχείων Dg 8:2; cp. 7:2 (s. b).

ⓑ of basic components of celestial constellations, heavenly bodies (Ar. 3, 2; Just., A II, 5, 2; Diog. L. 6. 102 τὰ δώδεκα στοιχεῖα of the signs of the zodiac; POsl 4, 18 δώδεκα στ. τοῦ οὐρανοῦ; Ps.-Callisth. 13, 1.—PGM 4, 1303 the ‘Bear’ is called a στοιχεῖον ἄφθαρτον.—Rtzst., Poim. 69ff, Herr der Grösse 13ff; Diels [s. below] 53f; JvanWageningen, Τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου: ThSt 35, 1917, 1–6; FColson, The Week 1926, 95ff) Dg 7:2.

ⓒ of things that constitute the foundation of learning, fundamental principles (X., Mem. 2, 1, 1; Isocr. 2, 16; Plut., Lib. Educ. 16, 2; Just., A I, 60, 11) or even letters of the alphabet, ABC’s (Pla. et al.) τὰ στ. τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν λογίων τοῦ θεοῦ the very elements of the truths of God Hb 5:12. This mng. is also prob. for the passages in Gal (4:3, 9 NEB ‘elementary ideas belonging to this world’; cp. LBelleville, JSNT 26, ’86, 53–78) and Col; s. next.

② transcendent powers that are in control over events in this world, elements, elemental spirits. The mng. of στ. in τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου Gal 4:3; Col 2:8, 20 (for the expr. στοιχ. τ. κόσμου cp. SibOr 2, 206; 3, 80f; 8, 337) and τὰ ἀσθενῆ καὶ πτωχὰ στοιχεῖα Gal 4:9 is much disputed. For a survey s. EBurton, ICC Gal 1921, 510–18. Some (e.g. Burton, Goodsp.) prefer to take it in sense 1c above, as referring to the elementary forms of religion, Jewish and polytheistic, which have been superseded by the new revelation in Christ (so also WKnox, St. Paul and the Church of the Gentiles ’39, 108f; RGrant, HTR 39, ’46, 71–3; ACramer, Stoicheia Tou Kosmou, ’61 [the unregenerate tendencies within humans]).—Others (e.g. WBauer, Mft., NRSV) hold that the ref. is to the elemental spirits which the syncretistic religious tendencies of later antiquity associated w. the physical elements (Herm. Wr. Κόρη κόσμου in Stob. I 409 W.=Sc. 486ff, esp. 486, 23; 25; 490, 14: the στοιχεῖα, fire, air, water, earth, complain to the deity who is over all; Orph. Hymn. 5, 4; 66, 4 Qu.; Ps.-Callisth. 1, 3 [s. below Pfister p. 416f]; Simplicius In Aristot. De Caelo 1, 3 p. 107, 15 Heiberg.—MDibelius, Geisterwelt 78ff; 228ff, Hdb. z. NT² exc. on Col 2:8; ELohmeyer, Col 1930, 4–8; 103–5; FPfister, Die στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου in den Briefen des Ap. Pls: Philol. 69, 1910, 411–27; GMacgregor: ACPurdy Festschr. ’60, 88–104); they were somet. worshiped as divinities (Vett. Val. 293, 27; Philo, Vita Cont. 3 τοὺς τὰ στοιχεῖα τιμῶντας, γῆν, ὕδωρ, ἀέρα, πῦρ. Cp. Diels [s. below] 45ff; Schweizer 1a above). It is not always easy to differentiate betw. this sense and that of 1b above, since heavenly bodies were also regarded as personal beings and given divine honors.—HDiels, Elementum 1899; ABonhöffer, Epiktet u. das NT 1911, 130ff; OLagercrantz, Elementum 1911 (p. 41 στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου=θεμέλια τοῦ κόσμου); BEaston, The Pauline Theol. and Hellenism: AJT 21, 1917, 358–82; KDieterich, Hellenist. Volksreligion u. byz.-neugriech. Volksglaube: Αγγελος I 1925, 2–23; on Gal 4 and Col 2, GKurze, D. στοιχεῖα τ. κόσμου: BZ 15, 1927, 335; WHatch, Τὰ στοιχεῖα in Paul and Bardaisân: JTS 28, 1927, 181f; JHuby, Στοιχεῖα dans Bardesane et dans St. Paul: Biblica 15, ’34, 365–68; on Gal 4:3, 9 and Col 2:8, 20, LScheu, Die ‘Weltelemente’ beim Ap. Pls: diss. Cath. Univ., Washington ’34; BReicke, JBL 70, ’51, 259–76 (Gal 4:1–11); WBrownlee, Messianic Motifs of Qumran and the NT, NTS 3, ’56/57, 195–210; MKiley, SBLSP 25, ’86, 236–45.—RAC IV 1073–1100; B. 1501. DELG s.v. στείχω. M-M. EDNT. TW. Sv.