Strong G3586ξύλον
wood
- Transliteration
- xulon
- Pronunciation
- xoo'-lon
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From another form of the base of G3582; timber (as fuel or material); by implication a stick club or tree or other wooden article or substance: - staff stocks tree wood.
Detailed definition
ξύλον, -ου, τό
[in LXX chiefly for עֵץ;]
1. wood: 1Co.3:12, Rev.18:12.
2. a piece of wood, hence, anything made of wood, as,
__(a) a cudgel, staff: pl., Mat.26:47, 55, Mrk.14:43, 48, Luk.22:52;
__(b) stocks, for confining the feet (Job.33:11, סַד): Act.16:24;
__(with) a beam to which malefactors were bound (late Gk.), in LXX, of a gibbet (Deu.21:22-23), in NT, of the Cross: Act.5:30 10:39 13:29, Gal.3:13, 1Pe.2:24.
3. In late writers (see MM, xvii), a tree (Gen.1:29, Isa.14:8, al.): Luk.23:31; ξ. τῆς ζωῆς, Rev.2:7 22:2, 14 22:19.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for עֵץ;]
1. wood: 1Co.3:12, Rev.18:12.
2. a piece of wood, hence, anything made of wood, as,
__(a) a cudgel, staff: pl., Mat.26:47, 55, Mrk.14:43, 48, Luk.22:52;
__(b) stocks, for confining the feet (Job.33:11, סַד): Act.16:24;
__(with) a beam to which malefactors were bound (late Gk.), in LXX, of a gibbet (Deu.21:22-23), in NT, of the Cross: Act.5:30 10:39 13:29, Gal.3:13, 1Pe.2:24.
3. In late writers (see MM, xvii), a tree (Gen.1:29, Isa.14:8, al.): Luk.23:31; ξ. τῆς ζωῆς, Rev.2:7 22:2, 14 22:19.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3586 appears in 17 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- tree9
- stave5
- wood2
- stock1
First verses
- Matthew 26:47And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
- Matthew 26:55In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
- Mark 14:43And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
- Mark 14:48And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
- Luke 22:52Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
- Luke 23:31For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
- Acts 10:39And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
- Acts 13:29And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
- Acts 16:24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
- 1 Corinthians 3:12Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
- Galatians 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- 1 Peter 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- Revelation 2:7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
- Revelation 18:12The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
- Revelation 22:2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
- Revelation 22:14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ξύλον [ῠ], τό
(plural spelt ξύλεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Abh. Berl. Akad.” 1928(6).32 (Cos, 5th c.BC)))], wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], mostly in plural, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.507, 547, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.418)]; ξ. νήϊα ship-timber, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 808; ξ. ναυπηγήσιμα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 706b, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.28)]; ξ. τετράγωνα logs cut square, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109b7.)]
2 in plural, also, the wood-market, ἐπὶ ξύλα ἰέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 403.)]
II in singular, piece of wood, log, beam, post, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ξ. αὖον.. ἢ δρυὸς ἢ πεύκης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.327)]; ξ. σύκινον spoon made of fig wood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 291c)]; peg or lever, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Motu Animalium” 701b9)]; perch, ἐπὶ ξύλου καθεύδειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1431: by poetry periphrastic, Ἀργοῦς ξύλον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 20)]; ἵπποιο κακὸν ξ., of the Trojan horse, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.152 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus): hence anything made of wood, as,)]
II.2 cudgel, club, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63, 4.180, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 357, “PHal.” 1.187 (3rd c.BC))]; μετὰ ξύλων εἰσπηδῆσαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PTeb.” 304.10 (2nd c.AD))]; ξύλοις συντρίψειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 50)]; of the club of Heracles, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 30.)]
II.3 an instrument of punishment,
II.3.a wooden collar, put on the neck of the prisoner, ξύλῳ φιμοῦν τὸν αὐχένα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 592; ἐς τετρημένον ξ. ἐγκαθαρμόσαι.. τὸν αὐχένα [prev. author] “Lys.” 680)]; or,
II.3.b stocks, in which the feet were confined, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.37, 6.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 367, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.129; ξ. ἐφέλκειν 5th-6th c.BC: Polyzelus Comicus 3; ἐν τῷ ξ. δεδέσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.16 (see. ποδοκάκκη),cf. NT.Act.16.24, “OGI” 483.181 (Pergam., 2nd c.AD))]: also in plural, ἔδησεν ἐν τοῖς ξ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.45.)]
II.3.c πεντεσύριγγον ξύλον (see. entry) was a combination of both, with holes for the neck, arms, and legs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1049.)]
II.3.d gallows, κρεμάσαι τινὰ ἐπὶ ξύλου [LXX (LXX.Deu.21.22)]; ξ. δίδυμον[LXX (LXX.Josh.8.29: proverbial, ἐξ ἀξίου τοῦ ξύλου κἂν ἀπάγξασθαι,)] i.e. if one must be hanged, at least let it be on a noble tree, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“App.Prov.” 2.67, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 736)]; in NT, of the cross, [NT (NT.Acts.5.30,10.39.)]
II.3.e stake on which criminals were impaled, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 222.10.)]
II.4 bench, table, especially money-changer's table, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.33.)]
II.5 πρῶτον ξύλον front bench in the Athenian theatre, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 25, “V.” 90, cf. Scholia (at [prev. work]): hence οὑπὶ τῶν ξύλων)] the official who had to take care of the seats, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 9 (according to Meineke).)]
II.6 the Hippocratic bench, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 13, “Art.” 72.)]
III of live wood, tree, [ὄρος] δασὺ πολλοῖς καὶ παντοδαποῖς καὶ μεγάλοις ξύλοις [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.5, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 41, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 55, LXX.Cant.2.3, +others: opposed to σάρξ, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.2.6, +others; τῷ ξ. τοῦ δένδρου ἀνάλογον τὴν λεγομένην εἶναι γῆν 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.11; τὸ ξ. τῆς ἀμπέλου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 572)]; εἴρια ἀπὸ ξύλου, of cotton, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.47; εἵματα ἀπὸ ξύλων πεποιημένα [prev. author] 7.65, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.75.)]
IV of persons, blockhead, [Refs (Anthologia Graeca Appx. 4.187)]; of a stubborn person, σίδηρός τις ἢ ξ. πρὸς τὰς δεήσεις [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 5.22.)]
V a measure oflength, = 3 (also 2 2/3) cubits, the side of the ναύβιον, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus)] “*Geometry texts” 23.4,11, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 669.11, 28 (3rd c.AD), 1053 (6th-7th c.AD).)]
(plural spelt ξύλεα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Abh. Berl. Akad.” 1928(6).32 (Cos, 5th c.BC)))], wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)], mostly in plural, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.507, 547, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.418)]; ξ. νήϊα ship-timber, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 808; ξ. ναυπηγήσιμα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 706b, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 17.28)]; ξ. τετράγωνα logs cut square, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.186, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1109b7.)]
2 in plural, also, the wood-market, ἐπὶ ξύλα ἰέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 403.)]
II in singular, piece of wood, log, beam, post, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ξ. αὖον.. ἢ δρυὸς ἢ πεύκης 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.327)]; ξ. σύκινον spoon made of fig wood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 291c)]; peg or lever, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Motu Animalium” 701b9)]; perch, ἐπὶ ξύλου καθεύδειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1431: by poetry periphrastic, Ἀργοῦς ξύλον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 20)]; ἵπποιο κακὸν ξ., of the Trojan horse, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.152 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus): hence anything made of wood, as,)]
II.2 cudgel, club, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.63, 4.180, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 357, “PHal.” 1.187 (3rd c.BC))]; μετὰ ξύλων εἰσπηδῆσαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PTeb.” 304.10 (2nd c.AD))]; ξύλοις συντρίψειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Demon.” 50)]; of the club of Heracles, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 30.)]
II.3 an instrument of punishment,
II.3.a wooden collar, put on the neck of the prisoner, ξύλῳ φιμοῦν τὸν αὐχένα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 592; ἐς τετρημένον ξ. ἐγκαθαρμόσαι.. τὸν αὐχένα [prev. author] “Lys.” 680)]; or,
II.3.b stocks, in which the feet were confined, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.37, 6.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 367, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.129; ξ. ἐφέλκειν 5th-6th c.BC: Polyzelus Comicus 3; ἐν τῷ ξ. δεδέσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 10.16 (see. ποδοκάκκη),cf. NT.Act.16.24, “OGI” 483.181 (Pergam., 2nd c.AD))]: also in plural, ἔδησεν ἐν τοῖς ξ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.45.)]
II.3.c πεντεσύριγγον ξύλον (see. entry) was a combination of both, with holes for the neck, arms, and legs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1049.)]
II.3.d gallows, κρεμάσαι τινὰ ἐπὶ ξύλου [LXX (LXX.Deu.21.22)]; ξ. δίδυμον[LXX (LXX.Josh.8.29: proverbial, ἐξ ἀξίου τοῦ ξύλου κἂν ἀπάγξασθαι,)] i.e. if one must be hanged, at least let it be on a noble tree, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“App.Prov.” 2.67, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 736)]; in NT, of the cross, [NT (NT.Acts.5.30,10.39.)]
II.3.e stake on which criminals were impaled, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 222.10.)]
II.4 bench, table, especially money-changer's table, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.33.)]
II.5 πρῶτον ξύλον front bench in the Athenian theatre, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 25, “V.” 90, cf. Scholia (at [prev. work]): hence οὑπὶ τῶν ξύλων)] the official who had to take care of the seats, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 9 (according to Meineke).)]
II.6 the Hippocratic bench, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 13, “Art.” 72.)]
III of live wood, tree, [ὄρος] δασὺ πολλοῖς καὶ παντοδαποῖς καὶ μεγάλοις ξύλοις [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.5, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 41, 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 55, LXX.Cant.2.3, +others: opposed to σάρξ, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.2.6, +others; τῷ ξ. τοῦ δένδρου ἀνάλογον τὴν λεγομένην εἶναι γῆν 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.11; τὸ ξ. τῆς ἀμπέλου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 572)]; εἴρια ἀπὸ ξύλου, of cotton, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.47; εἵματα ἀπὸ ξύλων πεποιημένα [prev. author] 7.65, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.75.)]
IV of persons, blockhead, [Refs (Anthologia Graeca Appx. 4.187)]; of a stubborn person, σίδηρός τις ἢ ξ. πρὸς τὰς δεήσεις [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 5.22.)]
V a measure oflength, = 3 (also 2 2/3) cubits, the side of the ναύβιον, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus)] “*Geometry texts” 23.4,11, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 669.11, 28 (3rd c.AD), 1053 (6th-7th c.AD).)]