στερέ-ωμα, ατος, τό,
solid body, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 8, 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus cited in “Placita Philosophorum” 2.25.9. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b ἄϋλα σ. immaterial solids, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 425, compare 205. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__2 foundation or framework, e.g. the skeleton, on which the body is, as it were, built, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 655a22 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; στερεώματος ἕνεκα τοῦ περιτρήτου to strengthen it, [[ 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 95.8 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: metaphorically, solid part, strength of an army, [[ LXX.1Mac.9.14 ] LXX]; also, ratification, ἐπιστολῆς[[LXX.Est.9.29 ] LXX]; steadfastness, τῆς πίστεως [[ NT.Col.2.5. ] NT]
__3 ={στεῖρα} (of a ship), [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.7.3. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 firmament, i.e. the sky, the heaven above, [[ LXX.Gen.1.6, LXX.Eze.1.22, +others; τὸν τῶν οὐρανίων σ. δεσπότην “Tab.Defix.Aud.” 242.8 (Carthage, 3rd c.AD). ] LXX+3rd c.AD+]