"a setting; a standing; an effective position, an unimpaired standing or dignity, Heb. 9:8; a gathered party, a group; hence, a tumultuous assemblage, popular outbreak, Mk. 15:7; Acts 19:40; Lk. 23:19, 25; seditious movement, Acts 24:5; discord, dispute, dissension, Acts 15:2; 23:..."
Definition and meaning
a setting; a standing; an effective position, an unimpaired standing or dignity, Heb. 9:8; a gathered party, a group; hence, a tumultuous assemblage, popular outbreak, Mk. 15:7; Acts 19:40; Lk. 23:19, 25; seditious movement, Acts 24:5; discord, dispute, dissension, Acts 15:2; 23:7, 10*
In the original Greek the word is written: στάσις
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of stasis (G4714) across the King James Bible.
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
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Common questions
Strong's G4714 (stasis) is a Greek word that means: a setting; a standing; an effective position, an unimpaired standing or dignity, Heb. 9:8; a gathered party, a group; hence, a tumultuous assemblage, popular outbreak, Mk. 15:7; Acts 19:40; Lk. 23:19,... It appears 9 times in the King James Bible.
The word stasis (G4714) appears 9 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G4714 is stasis, a Greek word defined as: a setting; a standing; an effective position, an unimpaired standing or dignity, Heb. 9:8; a gathered party, a group; hence, a tumultuous assemblage, . James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
stasis is a Greek word found in the New Testament.