Greek verb · G4748
στοιχέω
stoicheostoy-kheh'-o
to follow
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: stoichéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4748is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4748
to march in (military) rank (keep step), i.e. (figuratively) to conform to virtue and piety
The King James renders it: walk (orderly).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
stoicheo is rendered "to follow". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 21:24Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
Acts 21:24στοιχεῖς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to walk1
- walking1
- we shall walk1
- will walk1
- you walk orderly1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- στοιχεῖν1
- στοιχεῖς1
- στοιχήσουσιν1
- στοιχοῦσιν1
- στοιχῶμεν1
The grammar of each form
- verb · future active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FAI-3P
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PAI-2S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
- verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-PAP-DPM
- verb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-PAS-1P
Acts
one use
Take these men, purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses so they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is no truth to these rumors about you, but that you also live in obedience to the law.
- στοιχεῖςstoicheisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you walk orderly
Romans
one use
And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
- στοιχοῦσινstoichousinverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: walking
Galatians
two uses
Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
- στοιχῶμενstoichomenverb · present active, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: we shall walk
Peace and mercy to all who walk by this rule, even to the Israel of God.
- στοιχήσουσινstoichesousinverb · future active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will walk
Philippians
one use
Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained.
- στοιχεῖνstoicheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to walk
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.