Bible word study

Stasis (Strong’s G4714): Meaning in the Bible

Stasis (στάσις) is the Greek word numbered G4714 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a standing (properly, the act), i.e. (by analogy) position (existence); by implication, a popular uprising; figuratively, controversy. In the King James Bible it is translated dissension, insurrection, X standing, uproar..

• Original wordστάσις
• Transliterationstásis
• Pronunciationstas'-is
• Strong’s numberG4714
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from the base of G2476;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Stasis appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Stasis (G4714) stands behind 9 English renderings in 9 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (5), Luke (2), Mark (1).

How the King James Bible renders Stasis, by count

• dissension3 of 9 (33 percent)
• sedition3 of 9 (33 percent)
• insurrection1 of 9 (11 percent)
• standing1 of 9 (11 percent)
• uproar1 of 9 (11 percent)

Three places to read Stasis

• Mark 15:7 And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
• Acts 15:2 When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
• Acts 23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Stasis in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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