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Strong's G3586 · Greek

ξύλον

xulon · xoo'-lon

from another form of the base of 3582; timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ξύλον (G3586)

20 ξύλον , -ου, τό , [in LXX chiefly for עֵץ ;] wood : I Co 3:12 , Re 18:12 . a piece of wood , hence, anything made of wood, as, a cudgel , staff : pl., Mt 26:47 , 55 , Mk 14:43 , 48 , Lk 22:52 ; stocks , for confining the feet ( Jb 33:11 , סַד ): Ac 16:24 ; a beam to which malefactors were bound (late Gk.), in LXX, of a gibbet ( De 21:22 , 23 ), in NT, of the Cross: Ac 5:30 10:39 13:29 , Ga 3:13 , I Pe 2:24 . In late writers (v. MM, xvii), a tree ( Ge 1:29 , Is 14:8 , al.): Lk 23:31 ; ξ. τῆς ζωῆς , Re 2:7 22:2 , 14 , 19 .†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

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