| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Col 2:20 | King James | 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, |
| Strong Concordance | Wherefore [3767] if [1487] ye be dead [599] with [4862] Christ [5547] from [575] the rudiments [4747] of the world [2889], why [5101], as though [5613] living [2198] in [1722] the world [2889], are ye subject to ordinances [1379], |
| Greek For 4747 | |
| Word | stoicheion |
| Pronunciation | stoy-khi'-on |
| Definition |
neuter of a presumed derivative of the base of 4748; something orderly in arrangement, i.e. (by implication) a serial (basal, fundamental, initial) constituent (literally), proposition (figuratively): element, principle, rudiment. |
| Root(s) | 4748 |
| Verse Occurrences | 7 |
| Verse | Other Content | Text |
| Ga 4:3 | C D T R K | Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [4747] of the world : |
| Ga 4:9 | C D T R K | But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements [4747], whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? |
| Col 2:8 | C D T R K | Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments [4747] of the world, and not after Christ. |
| Col 2:20 | C D T R K | Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments [4747] of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, |
| Heb 5:12 | C D T R K | For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles [4747] of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. |
| 2Pe 3:10 | C D T R K | 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 [4747] shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. |
| 2Pe 3:12 | C D T R K | Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements [4747] shall melt with fervent heat? |