Lexicon 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. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitiona portico NASB Translationportico (3), porticoes (1).
Thayer's 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 (Solomon's Temple, at the end))): John 10:23; Acts 3:11; Acts 5:12.
Strong's porch, colonnade Probably from histemi; a colonnade or interior piazza -- porch. see GREEK histemi |
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