στοά, ᾶς, ἡ,
SIG 29 (Attic, found at Delphi, vi/v B.C. ), al., IG 12.115.7, al.; also στοιά (in anapaest. verse) Ar. Ec. 676, 684, 686, and in some dialect Inscrr., IG 12(3).170.22 ( Astypalaea ), 42(1).115.20 (prob., Epid., iv/iii B.C. ), Ρχ. Ἐφ .1913.227 ( Lesbos ); στωϊά Inscr.Magn. 67.6 (Cnossian decree, iii/ii B.C. ), IG 12(2).14.2, al. (Mytil.): -
roofed colonnade, cloister, Hdt. 3.52, Th. 4.90, 8.90, X. HG 5.2.29, 7.4.31, Ev.[Joh 10:23], CPHerm. 94.3 (iii A.D.), etc.
II at Athens,
1 storehouse, magazine, esp. for corn, Ar. Ach. 548; στοιὰ ἀλφιτόπωλις Id. Ec. 686, cf. 14 .
2. ἡ στοιὰ ἡ βασίλειος the court where the βασιλεύς sat, ib. 684; ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως ς . Pl. Tht. 210d, cf. Euthphr. 2a, Paus. 1.3.1, 1.14.6, Poll. 8.86; ς. βασιλική at Thera, IG 12(3).326.19.
3. ἡ στοὰ ἡ ποικίλη, v. ποικίλος 11.3: also ἡ ς . alone, And. 1.85; so οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς ς ., of the Stoics (since Zeno taught there), Placit. 1.5.1, S.E. M. 9.11, Gal. 10.15, etc.; οἱ ἐκ τῆς ς . Id. 18(1).259: also ἡ Σ . alone, the Stoic school, Phld. Rh. 2.68S.
4. of other porticoes, ἡ ς. ἡ τῶν Ἑρμῶν Aeschin. 3.183; ἡ μακρὰ ς . D. 34.37; ἡ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ἐλευθερίου ς . Pl. Thg. 121a .
III long roof or shed used in sieges, SIG 569.36 (Halasarna, iii B.C. ), Plb. 1.48.2: - gallery, communication trench, whether above ground or excavated, Ph. Bel. 83.32, 85.10, 91.31 .
G4745 — 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].