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στοιχεῖον, 'rudiments, first steps.'
1. Applied to children at the 'commencement' of their training; and to the law as the 'early' way of God's dealing with Israel; but now called 'beggarly' because it has lost its glory through the failure of man, and the introduction of Christ Himself. Gal. 4: 3, 9. The word, with a similar meaning, is translated 'rudiments' in Col. 2: 8, 20, and 'principles' in Heb. 5: 12.
2. The material elements of the universe, which will be melted with great heat in the day of the Lord. 2 Peter 3: 10, 12.