Dictionary entry

στοιχέω

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

στοιχέω, -ῶ

(< στοῖχος, a row), [in LXX: Ec 11:6 (כָּשֵׁר) *;]

to be in rows (of waves, plants, etc., as well as of men), to walk in line (esp. of marching in file to battle; Xen., Cyr., vi, 3, 34, al.). Metaph., in late writers, to walk by rule: Ac 21:24; c. dat., to walk by or in (as a rule of life), Ro 4:12 (cf. MM, xxiii), Ga 5:256:16, Phl 3:16 (cf. συν-στοιχέω).†