G4747–στοιχεῖον–stoicheion

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “basic principles”

and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

στοιχείων stoicheiōn “principles”

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what `are' the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “elements”

waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt;

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “[the] elements”