G4747–στοιχεῖον–stoicheion

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “basic principles”

but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as [ergänzt: if] alive in [ergänzt: the] world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

στοιχείων stoicheiōn “principles”

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that [ergänzt: one] should teach you what [ergänzt: are] the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, [ergänzt: and] not of solid food.

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “principles”

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

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “elements”

waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, by reason of which [ergänzt: the] heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and [ergänzt: the] elements, burning with heat, shall melt?

στοιχεῖα stoicheia “[the] elements”