Strong's #4747: stoicheion (pronounced stoy-khi'-on)

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.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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stoicheion

1) any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal

1a) the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds

1b) the elements from which all things have come, the material causes of the universe

1c) the heavenly bodies, either as parts of the heavens or (as others think) because in them the elements of man, life and destiny were supposed to reside

1d) the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental principles of any art, science, or discipline

1d1) i.e. of mathematics, Euclid' s geometry

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from a presumed derivative of the base of G4748

Citing in TDNT: 7:670, 1087

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Galatians 4:3: "in bondage under the elements of the world:"
Galatians 4:9: "weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again"
Colossians 2:8: "of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not"
Colossians 2:20: "Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though"
Hebrews 5:12: "which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and"
2 Peter 3:10: "shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also"
2 Peter 3:12: "the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?"