Strong's Lexicon
G4714 — στάσις
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4714 |
|---|---|
| Word: | στάσις |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from the base of G2476 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 9 |
| Transliteration: | stasis |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | stas'-is |
| Meaning: | 1. a standing (properly, the act) 2. (by analogy) position (existence) 3. (by implication) a popular uprising 4. (figuratively) controversy |
| KJV Renderings: | dissension, insurrection, X standing, uproar |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
στάσις, στάσεως, ἡ (ἵστημι);
1. a standing, station, state: ἔχειν στάσιν, to stand, exist, have stability, Latinlocum habere (R. V. is get standing), Heb 9:8 (Polybius 5, 5, 3).
2. from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, an insurrection (cf. German Aufstand): Mar 15:7; Luk 23:19; Luk 23:25; Act 19:40 (see σήμερον, under the end); κινεῖν στάσιν (L T Tr WH στάσεις) τίνι (a mover of insurrections among i. e.) against (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 208 (196)) one, Act 24:5.
3. strife, dissension (Aeschylus Pers. 738; (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 51): Act 15:2; Act 23:7; Act 23:10.
Other Resources
Englishman's Greek Concordance
στάσις (dissension)
Mark 15:7
- KJV: And there was named Barabbas bound with them that had made insurrection with him who had committed murder in the insurrection
- GK: ην δε ο λεγόμενος Βαραββάς μετά των συστασιαστών δεδεμένος οίτινες εν τη στάσει φόνον πεποιήκεισαν
Luke 23:19
- KJV: Who for a certain sedition made in the city and for murder was cast into prison
- GK: όστις ην διά στάσιν τινά γενομένην εν τη πόλει και φόνον βεβλημένος εις φυλακήν
Luke 23:25
- KJV: And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison whom they had desired but he delivered Jesus to their will
- GK: απέλυσε δε αυτοίς τον διά στάσιν και φόνον βεβλημένον εις την φυλακήν ον ητούντο τον δε Ιησούν παρέδωκε τω θελήματι αυτών
Acts 15:2
- KJV: When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question
- GK: γενομένης ούν στάσεως και ζητήσεως ουκ ολίγης τω Παύλω και τω Βαρνάβα προς αυτούς έταξαν αναβαίνειν Παύλον και Βαρνάβαν και τινας άλλους εξ αυτών προς τους αποστόλους και πρεσβυτέρους εις Ιερουσαλήμ περί του ζητήματος τούτου
Acts 19:40
- KJV: For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse
- GK: και γαρ κινδυνεύομεν εγκαλείσθαι στάσεως περί της σήμερον μηδενός αιτίου υπάρχοντας περί ου δυνησόμεθα δούναι λόγον της συστροφής ταύτης
Acts 23:7
- KJV: And when he had so said there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the multitude was divided
- GK: τούτο δε αυτού λαλήσαντος εγένετο στάσις των Φαρισαίων και των Σαδδουκαίων και εσχίσθη το πλήθος
Acts 23:10
- KJV: And when there arose a great dissension the chief captain fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring into the castle
- GK: πολλής δε γενομένης στάσεως ευλαβηθείς ο χιλίαρχος μη διασπασθή ο Παύλος υπ΄ αυτών εκέλευσε το στράτευμα καταβήναι και αρπάσαι αυτόν εκ μέσου αυτών άγειν τε εις την παρεμβολήν
Acts 24:5
- KJV: For we have found this man pestilent and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes
- GK: ευρόντες γαρ τον άνδρα τούτον λοιμόν και κινούντα στάσιν πάσι τοις Ιουδαίοις τοις κατά την οικουμένην πρωτοστάτην τε της των Ναζωραίων αιρέσεως
Hebrews 9:8
- KJV: The Holy Ghost this signifying the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was yet standing
- GK: τούτο δηλούντος του πνεύματος του αγίου μήπω πεφανερώσθαι την των αγίων οδόν έτι της πρώτης σκηνής εχούσης στάσιν