Strong G5208ὕλη
forest
- Transliteration
- hulē
- Pronunciation
- hoo'-lay
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Perhaps akin to G3586; a forest that is (by implication) fuel: - matter.
Detailed definition
ὕλη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX: Job.19:29 (†) Job.38:40 (סֻכָּה), Psa.69:2 B.l א (יָוֵן), Isa.10:17 (שָׁמִיר), Wis.11:17 15:13, Sir.28:10, 2Ma.2:24, 4Ma.1:29 *;]
1. wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.).
2. wood, timber, fuel (Hom., Hdt., Thuc., al.): Jas.3:5 (see Hort, Ja., 70, 104 f.).
3. = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers; Wis, ll. with).†
(AS)
[in LXX: Job.19:29 (†) Job.38:40 (סֻכָּה), Psa.69:2 B.l א (יָוֵן), Isa.10:17 (שָׁמִיר), Wis.11:17 15:13, Sir.28:10, 2Ma.2:24, 4Ma.1:29 *;]
1. wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.).
2. wood, timber, fuel (Hom., Hdt., Thuc., al.): Jas.3:5 (see Hort, Ja., 70, 104 f.).
3. = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers; Wis, ll. with).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5208 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- matter1
First verses
- James 3:5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Occurrences by book
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Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ὕλη [ῡ], ἡ,
forest, woodland, [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.155, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.316, NT.Jam.3.5, etc.; γῆν.. δασέαν ὕλῃ παντοίῃ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.21; ἀπ᾽ ὕλης ἀγρίης ζώειν [prev. author] 1.203)]; ὕλα ἀεργός virgin forest, [Refs (Berl.Sitzb. 1927.167 (from Cyrene))]; τὰ δένδρα καὶ ὕλη fruit-trees and forest-trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.69 (compareδένδρον))]; not only of forest-trees, but also of copse, brushwood, undergrowth (compare ὕλημα), directly opposed to to timber-trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.1, “Oec.” 16.13, 17.12, “PSI” 6.577.8 (3rd c.BC), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.40)]: also in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 386, 4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus 291 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.88, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.7.10, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.48, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 6, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 5.1.12, 15.1.60, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 25, “Cat. Ma.” 21, “Comp. Cim.Luc.” 3, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Prom.” 12, “Sacr.” 10, “Am.” 12, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 12.2, +others, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 3.69, 252, 16.91, 36.70, etc.)]
II wood cut down, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.257 (cf. III))]; firewood, fuel, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.418, 23.50, 111, +others, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.234, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.164, 6.80)]; brushwood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.36, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, etc.)]; timber, ὕ. ναυπηγησίμη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 705c; ναυπηγήσιμος καὶ οἰκοδομική 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.7.1, compare “IG” 42(1).102.50 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; also, twigs for birds' nests, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 559a2.)]
III the stuff of which a thing is made, material, (perhaps so of wood), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.257)]; rarely of other material, as metal, οἱ παρ᾽ ἄκμονι.. ὕλην ἄψυχον δημιουργοῦντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.802b (compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 844, but ὕλη is Plutarch's word))]: generally, materials, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (PMasp. 151.91 (6th c.AD).)]
III.2 in Philosophy, matter, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 93b, +others is later))]; defined as τὸ ὑποκείμενον γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς δεκτικόν, [Refs (“GC” 320a2)]; as τὸ ἐζ οὗ γίγνεται, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1032a17; οὐσία ἥ τε ὕ. καὶ τὸ εἶδος καὶ τὸ ἐκ τούτων [prev. work]1035a2; opposed to as δυνάμει τόδε τι to τόδε τι ἐνεργεία, [prev. work] 1042a27; opposed to ἐντελέχεια, [prev. work]1038b6:)] in later philosophical writers, mostly opposed to to the intelligent and formative principle (νοῦς), [Refs 4th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 72, etc.; ὕ. τῶν ἀριθμῶν 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 4.)]
III.3 matter for a poem or treatise, ὕ. τραγική, ποιητικαὶ ὗλαι, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.16.14, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 13.4, compare 43.1, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 172.1, etc.)]; ἡ ὑποκειμένη ὕ. the subject-matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1094b12, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.124 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
III.4 ὕ. ἰατρική materia medica, Dsc.at Title Page; so ὕλη alone, materia medica, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 1 “Prooem.”, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(2).181)]; ὗλαι τῆς τέχνης [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. passage], compare 6.77, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.83, 110, 2.15, 28; ἡ ὕ. τῶν ὁπλομαχικῶν ἐνεργειῶν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.157.)]
III.4.b ἡ μέση ὕλη the middle range of diet, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.46, 2.15; τροφιμωτέρα ὕλη [prev. author] 1.95, compare 36.)]
III.5 plural, material resources, βασιλικαὶ ὗλαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.640.)]
IV sediment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 879, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1086, 1088 (hence ὑλίζω)] (ἀφ-, δι-), ὑλώδης [Refs (11))]; mud, slime, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 70.9 (2nd c.BC))]; ὕλῃ, ὕλει, and ἰλυῖ are conjecture for ὕδει in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 961.)]
IV.2 matter excreted from the human body, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.22, 23, 25, +others; ἡ ὕ. τῶν ἐμπυημάτων 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).256)]; phlegm, catarrh, PMed. in [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Arch.Papyrus” 4.270 (3rd c.AD).)]
forest, woodland, [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.155, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.316, NT.Jam.3.5, etc.; γῆν.. δασέαν ὕλῃ παντοίῃ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.21; ἀπ᾽ ὕλης ἀγρίης ζώειν [prev. author] 1.203)]; ὕλα ἀεργός virgin forest, [Refs (Berl.Sitzb. 1927.167 (from Cyrene))]; τὰ δένδρα καὶ ὕλη fruit-trees and forest-trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.69 (compareδένδρον))]; not only of forest-trees, but also of copse, brushwood, undergrowth (compare ὕλημα), directly opposed to to timber-trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.1, “Oec.” 16.13, 17.12, “PSI” 6.577.8 (3rd c.BC), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.40)]: also in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 386, 4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus 291 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.88, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.7.10, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 3.48, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 6, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 5.1.12, 15.1.60, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pyrrhus” 25, “Cat. Ma.” 21, “Comp. Cim.Luc.” 3, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Prom.” 12, “Sacr.” 10, “Am.” 12, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 12.2, +others, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 3.69, 252, 16.91, 36.70, etc.)]
II wood cut down, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.257 (cf. III))]; firewood, fuel, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.418, 23.50, 111, +others, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.234, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.164, 6.80)]; brushwood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 7.36, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, etc.)]; timber, ὕ. ναυπηγησίμη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 705c; ναυπηγήσιμος καὶ οἰκοδομική 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 5.7.1, compare “IG” 42(1).102.50 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]; also, twigs for birds' nests, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 559a2.)]
III the stuff of which a thing is made, material, (perhaps so of wood), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.257)]; rarely of other material, as metal, οἱ παρ᾽ ἄκμονι.. ὕλην ἄψυχον δημιουργοῦντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.802b (compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 844, but ὕλη is Plutarch's word))]: generally, materials, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (PMasp. 151.91 (6th c.AD).)]
III.2 in Philosophy, matter, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus (5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 93b, +others is later))]; defined as τὸ ὑποκείμενον γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς δεκτικόν, [Refs (“GC” 320a2)]; as τὸ ἐζ οὗ γίγνεται, [Refs (“Metaphorical” 1032a17; οὐσία ἥ τε ὕ. καὶ τὸ εἶδος καὶ τὸ ἐκ τούτων [prev. work]1035a2; opposed to as δυνάμει τόδε τι to τόδε τι ἐνεργεία, [prev. work] 1042a27; opposed to ἐντελέχεια, [prev. work]1038b6:)] in later philosophical writers, mostly opposed to to the intelligent and formative principle (νοῦς), [Refs 4th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 72, etc.; ὕ. τῶν ἀριθμῶν 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 4.)]
III.3 matter for a poem or treatise, ὕ. τραγική, ποιητικαὶ ὗλαι, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.16.14, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 13.4, compare 43.1, 2nd c.AD: Vettius Valens Astrologus 172.1, etc.)]; ἡ ὑποκειμένη ὕ. the subject-matter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1094b12, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.124 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus)]
III.4 ὕ. ἰατρική materia medica, Dsc.at Title Page; so ὕλη alone, materia medica, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 1 “Prooem.”, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(2).181)]; ὗλαι τῆς τέχνης [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. passage], compare 6.77, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.83, 110, 2.15, 28; ἡ ὕ. τῶν ὁπλομαχικῶν ἐνεργειῶν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.157.)]
III.4.b ἡ μέση ὕλη the middle range of diet, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.46, 2.15; τροφιμωτέρα ὕλη [prev. author] 1.95, compare 36.)]
III.5 plural, material resources, βασιλικαὶ ὗλαι [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.640.)]
IV sediment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 879, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1086, 1088 (hence ὑλίζω)] (ἀφ-, δι-), ὑλώδης [Refs (11))]; mud, slime, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“UPZ” 70.9 (2nd c.BC))]; ὕλῃ, ὕλει, and ἰλυῖ are conjecture for ὕδει in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 961.)]
IV.2 matter excreted from the human body, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.22, 23, 25, +others; ἡ ὕ. τῶν ἐμπυημάτων 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).256)]; phlegm, catarrh, PMed. in [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Arch.Papyrus” 4.270 (3rd c.AD).)]