Strong's #2310: themelios (pronounced them-el'-ee-os)

from a derivative of 5087; something put down, i.e. a substruction (of a building, etc.), (literally or figuratively):--foundation.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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themelios

1) laid down as a foundation, the foundation (of a building, wall, city)

2) metaphorically the foundations, beginnings, first principals

2a) of institution or system of truth

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from a derivative of G5087

Citing in TDNT: 3:63, 322

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Luke 6:48: "deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood"
Luke 6:49: "like a man that without a foundation built a house upon the"
Luke 14:29: "after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish"
Acts 16:26: "earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and"
Romans 15:20: "I should build upon another man's foundation:"
1 Corinthians 3:10: "a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But"
1 Corinthians 3:11: "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,"
1 Corinthians 3:12: "build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones,"
Ephesians 2:20: "And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,"
1 Timothy 6:19: "Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that"
2 Timothy 2:19: "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal,"
Hebrews 6:1: "not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,"
Hebrews 11:10: "he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker"
Revelation 21:14: "city had twelve foundations, and in them the names"
Revelation 21:19: "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished"
Revelation 21:19: "stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire;"