Lexicon stoicheó: to be in rows, fig. to walk by rule Original Word: στοιχέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: stoicheó Phonetic Spelling: (stoy-kheh'-o) Short Definition: I walk Definition: I walk in, walk by. HELPS word-Studies 4748 stoixéō (from stoixos, "a row, line, or rank") – properly, walk in line, in strict accordance to a particular pace ("stride"); walk in cadence, "keep in step." NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom stoichos (a row) Definitionto be in rows, fig. to walk by rule NASB Translationfollow (1), living (1), walk (2), walk orderly (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4748: στοιχέωστοιχέω, στοίχω; future στοιχήσω; ( στοῖχος a row, series); a. to proceed in a row, go in order: Xenophon, Cyril 6,3,34; metaphorically, to go on prosperously, to turn out well: of things, Ecclesiastes 11:6 for כָּשֵׁר. b. to walk: with a locative dative (Winers Grammar, § 31, 1 a. cf. p. 219 (205); yet cf. Buttmann, § 133, 22 b.). τοῖς ἴχνεσι τίνος, in the steps of one, i. e. follow his example, Romans 4:12; to direct one's life, to live, with a dative of the rule (Buttmann, as above), εἰ πνεύματι ... στοιχῶμεν, if the Holy Spirit animates us (see ζάω, I. 3 under the end), let us exhibit that control of the Spirit in our life, Galatians 5:25; τῷ κανόνι, according to the rule, Galatians 6:16; τῷ αὐτῷ (where Rec. adds κανόνι, Philippians 3:16 (Winers Grammar, § 43, 5 d.; cf. Buttmann, § 140, 18 at the end), (τῷ παραδειγματι τίνος, Clement, hom. 10, 15); with a participle denoting the manner of acting, στοιχεῖς τόν νόμον φυλάσσων, so walkest as to keep the law (A. V. walkest orderly, keeping etc.), Acts 21:24. (On the word and its construction see Fritzsche on Romans, vol. iii., p. 142. Compare:
Strong's walk orderly. From a derivative of steicho (to range in regular line); to march in (military) rank (keep step), i.e. (figuratively) to conform to virtue and piety -- walk (orderly). |
