Vine's Expository Dictionary

Statue Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H6754Original Word: s?elemUsage Notes: "statue; image; copy." Cognates of this word appear in Ugaritic and Phoenician (pe…

Stature * For STATURE see AGE, A, No. 3

Statute Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H2706Original Word: h?oqUsage Notes: "statute; prescription; rule; law; regulation." This noun is de…

Staves * For STAVES see STAFF

Stay "to hold fast, hold back," is used in the sense of detaining in Luk 4:42, "would have stayed (Him)," RV. See HOLD. has the meaning "to wait in a place, to …

Steadfast * For STEADFAST see STEDFAST

Steal "to steal," akin to kleptes, "a thief" (cp. Eng., "kleptomania"), occurs in Mat 1:6-20, Mat 19:18, Mat 27:64, Mat 28:13, Mar 10:19, Luk 18:20, Joh 10:10, …

Stedfast, Stedfastly, Stedfastness "firm, secure" (akin to baino, "to go"), is translated "steadfast" in 2Co 1:7, Heb 2:2, Heb 3:14, AV (RV, "firm"); Heb 6:19. …

Steep "a steep bank" (akin to kremannumi, "to hang"), occurs in Mat 8:32, Mar 5:13, Luk 8:33, RV, "the steep" (AV, "a steep place"). In the Sept., 2Ch 25:12.

Steersman * For STEERSMAN see GOVERNOR, B, Note

Step Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H6471Original Word: pa‘amUsage Notes: "step; foot; hoofbeats; pedestal; stroke; anvil." This noun's att…

Step (Noun and Verb) "a footstep, a track," is used metaphorically of the "steps" (a) of Christ's conduct, 1Pe 2:21; (b) of Abraham's faith, Rom 4:12; (c) of id…

Stern the feminine form of the adjective prumnos, "hindmost," is rendered "stern" in Act 27:29; and in the RV in Act 27:41, Mar 4:38. See PART, A, Note (2).

Steward, Stewardship primarily denoted "the manager of a household or estate" (oikos, "a house," nemo, "to arrange"), "a steward" (such were usually slaves or f…

Stick denotes "a dry stick" (from phrugo, "to parch"); in the plural, "brushwood," Act 28:3.

Stick fast primarily "to prop, fix firmly," is used intransitively in Act 27:41 of a ship driving ashore, RV, "struck."

Stiffnecked from skleros, "harsh, hard," trachelos, "a neck," is used metaphorically in Act 7:51.

Still (Adverb) "yet, as yet, still," is translated "still" in the RV in 1Co 12:31, 2Co 1:10, Gal 1:10, Gal 5:11; AV and RV in Rev 22:11 (four times), where the …

Still (Verb) in the Passive Voice, is rendered "be still" in Mar 4:39, see MUZZLE.

Sting * For STING see GOAD

Stink "to emit a smell" (cp. Eng., "ozone"), occurs in Joh 11:39. In the Sept., Exo 8:14.

Stir, Stir up (Noun and Verb) akin to tarache, "trouble," and tarasso, "to trouble," is rendered "stir" in Act 12:18, Act 19:23. denotes "to kindle afresh," or …

Stock * For STOCK see KIND

Stocks "wood," is used of "stocks" in Act 16:24. See STAFF, TREE, WOOD.

Stomach properly "a mouth, an opening," akin to stoma, "a mouth," denotes "the stomach" in 1Ti 5:23.

Stone Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H68Original Word: ’ebenUsage Notes: "stone." A comparison of Semitic languages shows that ’eben was the common word for "s…

Stone (Noun, Verb, and Adjective) is used (I) literally, of (a) the "stones" of the ground, e.g., Mat 4:3, Mat 4:6, Mat 7:9; (b) "tombstones," e.g., Mat 27:60, …

Stony * For STONY see ROCKY

Stoop "to bow the head, stoop down," occurs in Mar 1:7, Joh 8:6, Joh 8:8. is rendered "to stoop down" in Luk 24:12, Joh 20:5, Joh 20:11, RV, "stooping and looki…

Stop "to fence in" (akin to phragmos, "a fence"), "close, stop," is used (a) metaphorically, in Rom 3:19, of "preventing" all excuse from Jew and Gentile, as si…

Store (Verb) "to lay up, store up," is rendered "in store" (lit., "storing"), with a view to help a special case of need, 1Co 16:2; said of the heavens and eart…

Storehouse, Storechamber * For STOREHOUSE, STORECHAMBER, see CHAMBER

Storm "a hurricane, whirlwind," is rendered "storm" in Mar 4:37, Luk 8:23, 2Pe 2:17, RV (AV, "tempest"). See TEMPEST.

Story an adjective denoting "of three stories" (treis, "three," stege, "a roof"), occurs in Act 20:9 (with oikema, "a dwelling," understood), RV, "the third sto…

Straight "direct, straight, right," is translated "straight," figuratively, of the paths of the Lord, Mat 3:3, Mar 1:3, Luk 3:4; in Luk 3:5 of the rectification…

Straight course * For STRAIGHT COURSE, see COURSE, B, Note (1)

Straightway * For STRAIGHTWAY see FORTHWITH, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and IMMEDIATELY, No. 1

Strain out primarily denotes "to strain thoroughly" (dia, "through," intensive, hulizo, "to strain"), then, "to strain out," as through a sieve or strainer, as …

Strait (Adjective) * For the Adjective STRAIT see NARROW

Strait (be in a), Straitened "to hold together, constrain," is translated "I am in a strait" in Phi 1:23 (Passive Voice), i.e., being restricted on both sides, …

Straitest the superlative degree of akribes, "accurate, exact" (cp. akribos, see ACCURATELY and associated words there), occurs in Act 26:5, "the straitest (sec…

Straitly * Notes: (1) For polla, AV, "straitly" in Mar 3:12, Mar 5:43, see MUCH (RV). (2) In Act 4:17 some mss. have apeile, "a threat," with apeilo (Middle Voi…

Strake * For STRAKE, Act 27:17, AV (RV, "lowered"), see LET DOWN, No. 2.

Strange denotes (a) "foreign, alien," Act 17:18, of gods; Heb 13:9, of doctrines; (b) "unusual," 1Pe 1:4, 2nd part, of the fiery trial of persecution (for 1st p…

Stranger "strange" (see No. 1 above), denotes "a stranger, foreigner," Mat 25:35, Mat 25:38, Mat 1:25-44, Mat 27:7, Act 17:21, Eph 2:12, Eph 2:19, Heb 11:13, 3J…

Strangled from pnigo, "to choke," occurs in Act 15:20, Act 15:29, Act 21:25, of the flesh of animals killed by strangling, without shedding their blood (see, e.…

Strawed * For STRAWED see FURNISH and SCATTER, No. 2

Stream * For STREAM see RIVER

Street Usage Number: 1Part of Speech: NounStrong's Number: H2351Original Word: h?ûs?Usage Notes: "street." This word, of uncertain origin, appears in biblical, …

Strength Usage Number: 1Strong's Number: H2428Original Word: h?ayilUsage Notes: "strength; power; wealth; property; capable; valiant; army; troops; influential;…