G4747–στοιχεῖον–stoicheion

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “basic principles”

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

στοιχείων stoicheiōn “principles”

And though by this time it would be right for you to be teachers, you still have need of someone to give you teaching about the first simple rules of God's revelation; you have become like babies who have need of milk, and not of solid food.

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “elements”

Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “[the] elements”