Quick Definition
standing, place, dissension
Strong's Definition
a standing (properly, the act), i.e. (by analogy) position (existence); by implication, a popular uprising; figuratively, controversy
Derivation: from the base of G2476 (ἵστημι);
KJV Usage: dissension, insurrection, X standing, uproar
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
στάσις, στάσεως, ἡ (ἵστημι);
1. a standing, station, state: ἔχειν στάσιν, to stand, exist, have stability, Latinlocum habere (R. V. is get standing), Heb_9:8 (Polybius 5, 5, 3).
2. from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, an insurrection (cf. German Aufstand): Mar_15:7; Luk_23:19; Luk_23:25; Act_19:40 (see σήμερον, under the end); κινεῖν στάσιν (L T Tr WH στάσεις) τίνι (a mover of insurrections among i. e.) against (cf. Winer's Grammar, 208 (196)) one, Act_24:5.
3. strife, dissension (Aeschylus Pers. 738; (Diogenes Laërtius 3, 51): Act_15:2; Act_23:7; Act_23:10.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
στάσις stasis 9x
a setting; a standing; an effective position, an unimpaired standing or dignity, Heb_9:8 ;
a gathered party, a group; hence, a tumultuous assemblage, popular outbreak, Mar_15:7 ; Act_19:40 ; Luk_23:19 ; Luk_23:25 ;
seditious movement, Act_24:5 ;
discord, dispute, dissension, Act_15:2 ; Act_23:7 ; Act_23:10
στασιαστής stasiastēs 1x
a partisan, rebel, revolutionary, Mat_15:7
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
στάσσ , -εως , ἡ
( < ἵστημι ),
[in LXX chiefly for H5975 , its parts and derivatives, also for H7378 (Pr 1714), etc. ( v. Deiss., BS , 158 f .);]
1. a standing, place, status: σ . ἔχειν ( Polyb ., v, 5, 3; and cf. Lat. locum habere), Heb_9:8 .
2. insurrection, sedition : Mar_15:7 , Luk_23:19 ; Luk_23:25 , Act_19:40 ; Act_24:5 .
3. In poets and late prose, strife, dissension ( cf. MM , xxiii) Act_15:2 ; Act_23:7 ; Act_23:10 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
στάσις [page 586]
For the original meaning a standing, as in Heb_9:8 , cf. the use of the plur. for buildings, erections in P Petr III. 46 (3) .1 (iii/B.C.) εἰς τὰς στάσεις with the editor s note : see also Deissmann BS p. 158 f., and cf. Syll 790 (= .3 1157) .83 ( c. B.C. 100) ὁμοίω [ς δὲ καὶ μὴ εἰσβάλλειν θ ]ρέμματα νομῆς ἕνεκεν μηδὲ στάσεως .
The usage in Act_15:2 ; Act_23:7 ; Act_23:10 = strife, dissension, may be paralleled from P Rein 18 16 (B.C. 108) ἐπ᾽ ἀδίκου στάσεως ἱστάμενος , soulevant une querelle injuste, P Strass I. 20 .10 (iii/A.D.) where certain persons, who have been long at strife, agree στάσ̣εις διαλύσασθαι , and P Oxy XVI. 1873 .2 (late v/A.D.) ἔ ]τ̣ι τὴν Λυκοπολιτῶν στάσιν καὶ μ̣[α ]νίαν ϕ̣[αντά ]ζ̣ο̣μαι , I still see in imagination the riots and madness at Lycopolis (Edd.). See also P Lond 1912 .73 (Claudius to the Alexandrines A.D. 41) τῆς δὲ πρὸς Ἰουδαίους ταραχῆς καὶ στάσεως , Ostr 1151 .3 (iii/A.D. ?) γράφω σοι τὴν στάσι (ν ) περὶ τοῦ κλήρ (ου ), and Menander Fragm. 560 .3 στάσις οἰκετῶν , a wrangle among house-slaves. In P Lond 1177 .133 (A.D. 113) (= III. p. 184) the word is used of a shift of workmen.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
στάσις στά^σις, εως, [Etym: στῆναι] "a standing, the posture of standing", Aesch. , Plat. "a position, posture. post, station", Hdt. , Eur. ; τῆς στάσεως παρασύρων τὰς δρῦς tearing the oaks "from their ground", Ar. "a point of the compass", ἡ στ. τῆς μεσαμβρίης Hdt. "the position, state or condition" of a person, Lat. status, Plat. "a party, company, band", Aesch. : "a sect" of philosophers, Plut. esp. "a party formed for seditious purposes, a faction", Solon. , Hdt. , attic "sedition, discord", Hdt. , attic; στάσιν ποιεῖσθαι Isocr. ; πόλιν εἰς στάσιν ἐμβάλλειν Xen.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
στάσις, -εως, ἡ
(ἵστημι), [in LXX chiefly for עָמַד, its parts and derivatives, also for רִיב (Pr 1714), etc. (see Deiss., BS, 158 f.) ;]
__1. a standing, place, status: σ. ἔχειν (Polyb., v, 5, 3; and cf. Lat. locum habere), Heb.9:8.
__2. insurrection, sedition: Mrk.15:7, Luk.23:19, 25, Act.19:40 24:5.
__3. In poets and late prose, strife, dissension (cf. MM, xxiii) Act.15:2 23:7, 10.†
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