στερέωμα
support
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4733 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Colossians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“support” is the headline sense of the Greek noun στερεωμα (steréōma). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Colossians, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but Colossians 2:5. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4733 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Colossians 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Stedfastness 1×
- American Standard Version: Stedfastness 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Firm 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Strength 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4733 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4733 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4733 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4733 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- that which has been made firm
Word origin
Derived from στερεοω (stereóō) (G4732) — to strengthen.
From G4732 ; something established that is (abstractly) confirmation ( stability ): - stedfastness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στερεωμα appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 21 verses in 7 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 21
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:6 στερέωμα
- Exodus 24:10 στερέωμα
- Deuteronomy 33:26 στερέωμα
- Esther 9:29 στερέωμα
- Psalms 17:3 στερέωμα
- Ezekiel 1:22 στερέωμα
- Daniel 3:56 στερέωμα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4733) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:6 στερέωμα God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
- Genesis 1:7 στερέωμα God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse, and it was so.
- Genesis 1:8 στερέωμα God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:14 στερέωμα God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
- Genesis 1:15 στερέωμα and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:17 στερέωμα God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth,
- Genesis 1:20 στερέωμα God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."
- Exodus 24:10 στερέωμα They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.
- Deuteronomy 33:26 στερέωμα There is none like God, Jeshurun, Who rides on the heavens for your help, In his excellency on the skies.
- Esther 9:29 στερέωμα Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
- Psalms 17:3 στερέωμα You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and found nothing; I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
- Psalms 18:2 στερέωμα Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
- Psalms 70:3 στερέωμα Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"
- Psalms 72:4 στερέωμα He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, And will break the oppressor in pieces.
- Psalms 150:1 στερέωμα Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!
- Ezekiel 1:22 στερέωμα Over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of an expanse, like the awesome crystal to look on, stretched forth over their heads above.
- Ezekiel 1:23 στερέωμα Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: everyone had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.
- Ezekiel 1:25 στερέωμα There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.
- Ezekiel 10:1 στερέωμα Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
- Ezekiel 13:5 στερέωμα You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
- Daniel 3:56 στερέωμα
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4733) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
