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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

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στοιχέω

Strong’s: G4748

Associated OET lemmas: στοιχέω

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: στοιχεῖα · συστοιχέω

Sense 1: to live, to behave in accordance with

Semantic entry: 41.12

Semantic domains: Behavior and Related States

Subdomains: Behavior, Conduct

Definition: to live in conformity with some presumed standard or set of customs

Notes: In some languages it may be useful to restructure the relationships expressed by the reference to ‘the Spirit,’ and therefore one may translate this clause in RV GAL 5:25 · LV GAL 5:25 · Read together GAL 5:25 as ‘since the Spirit has given us life, we should also let him control our lives.’

ACT 21:24: RV ACT 21:24 · LV ACT 21:24 · Read together ACT 21:24

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OET-RV ACT 21:24

24 Why don’t you join these four and join them in the purification ceremony at the temple and pay their expenses in getting your heads shaved. Then everyone will be able to see that it’s false what they’ve heard about you, because you clearly still comply with Mosheh’s instructions.

OET-LV ACT 21:24

24 Having_taken these men, be_purified with them and spend for them, in_order_that they_will_be_shaving his head, and all will_be_knowing that of_which they_have_been_instructed about you nothing is, but you_are_aligning also yourself, keeping the law.

GAL 5:25: RV GAL 5:25 · LV GAL 5:25 · Read together GAL 5:25

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OET-RV GAL 5:25

25 If we’re being led by God’s spirit in our living, then we should also be aligning our values by the spirit.

OET-LV GAL 5:25

25 If we_are_living by_the_spirit, we_may_ also _be_aligning by_the_spirit.
All 4 recorded passages for this sense

ACT: RV ACT 21:24 · LV ACT 21:24 · Read together ACT 21:24

GAL: RV GAL 5:25 · RV GAL 6:16 · LV GAL 5:25 · LV GAL 6:16 · Read together GAL 5:25 · Read together GAL 6:16

PHP: RV PHP 3:16 · LV PHP 3:16 · Read together PHP 3:16

Sense 2: to imitate, to do as others do

Semantic entry: 41.47

Semantic domains: Behavior and Related States

Subdomains: Imitate Behavior

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to follow in the tracks) to behave in the same manner as someone else

Collocations: στοιχέω τοῖς ἴχνεσιν

ROM 4:12: RV ROM 4:12 · LV ROM 4:12 · Read together ROM 4:12

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OET-RV ROM 4:12

12 So our ancestor Avraham is the ancestor of us as a circumcised people group, not just because we’re circumcised, but also as we follow the steps of faith he took while uncircumcised.

OET-LV ROM 4:12

12 and father of_circumcision to_the ones not of circumcision only, but also to_the ones aligning in_the steps which in uncircumcision of_faith, of_the father of_us Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām).