στοά, στοάς, ἡ, a portico, a covered colonnade where people can stand or walk protected from the weather and the heat of the sun: Joh_5:2; στοά Σολομῶνος, a porch or portico built by Solomon in the eastern part of the temple (which in the temple's destruction by the Babylonians was left uninjured, and remained down to the times of king Agrippa, to whom the care of the temple was intrusted by the emperor Claudius, and who on account of its antiquity did not dare to demolish and build it anew; so Josephus relates, Antiquities 20, 9, 7; (but on 'Solomon's Porch' cf. B. D., under the word (Solomon's Temple, at the end))): Joh_10:23; Act_3:11; Act_5:12.

στοά stoa 4x a colonnade, cloister, covered walk supported by columns, Joh_5:2 ; Joh_10:23 ; Act_3:11 ; Act_5:12 * porch.

στοά , -ᾶς , ἡ , [in LXX : Eze_40:18 ( H7531 ), etc.;] a portico: Joh_5:2 ; used of the covered colonnade in the Temple ( EV , porch), Joh_10:23 Act_3:11 ; Act_5:12 †

στοά [page 590] For this word which is used of the covered portico or colonnade (AV, RV porch ) of the Temple in Joh_10:23 , Act_3:11 , we may cite the following exx. CP Herm I. 119 recto iii. 16 πρὸς τῇ καμ̣άρᾳ ὑπὸ στοὰν Ἀντινοϊτικῆς πλατίας , BGU IV. 1167 .33 (B.C. 12) ἐν τῇ τετραγώ (νῳ ) στοᾷ οἰκητηρίο (υ ), ib. 1127 .34 (B.C. 8) εἰς τὸ τῆς στοᾶς λογιστήριον , P Oxy XII. 1406 .11 (edict of Caracalla A.D. 213 17) προετέθη ἐν Β̣[αβυλῶνι ?] ὑπὸ στ̣[ο ]ᾷ δημο̣σι̣ᾳ , published at B[abylon ?] in the public colonnade (Edd.), ib. XVI. .13 (A.D. 505) ὑπ [ὸ τ ]ὴν νοτιν [ὴ ]ν δημοσίαν στοάν , Michel 1001 ii. 17 ( c. B.C. 200) εἴ κα μή τις στοὰν οἰκοδομῆσαι προαιρεῖται , Syll 588 .245 ( c. B.C. 180) ἐνωπίωι τῶν στοῶν , and C. and B. i. p. 155, No. 61 (A.D. 136 7) τὴν ἐξέδραν καὶ τὴν στουὰν παρ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ ἀποκαθέστησεν .

στοά στοα, ορ στοιή, ῆς, ἡ, "a roofed colonnade, piazza, cloister", Lat. porticus, Hdt. , Xen. at Athens this name was given to various public buildings: "a storehouse, magazine, warehouse" for corn, Ar. ἡ βασίλειος or ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως στοά "the court" where the ἄρχων βασιλεύς sat, id=Ar. , Plat. the "Poecile or Painted Chamber", in which Zeno of Citium taught, and so his school was called οἱ ἐκ τῆς στοᾶς or Στωικοί, Luc. "a shed to protect besiegers", Polyb.

στοά, -ᾶς, ἡ [in LXX: Eze.40:18 (רִצְפָּה), etc. ;] a portico: Jhn.5:2; used of the covered colonnade in the Temple (EV, porch), Jhn.10:23 Act.3:11 5:12 † (AS)