G3586: ξύλον
xýlon · “wood”
Definition
timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance
KJV translates it as: staff, stocks, tree, wood
Word origin: from another form of the base of G3582 (ξέστης);
Extended definition
[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)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3586 is translated
- tree ×7
- clubs ×4
- a tree; ×2
- wood ×2
- clubs? ×1
- a tree. ×1
- stocks. ×1
- wood, ×1
- was a tree ×1
Bible verses with G3586 (xýlon)
Xýlon appears in 18 verses.
- Matthew 26:47
And 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 26:55
In 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 14:43
And 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 14:48
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?
- Luke 22:52
Then 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 23:31
For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
- Acts 5:30
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.
- Acts 10:39
And 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 13:29
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
- Acts 16:24
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
- 1 Corinthians 3:12
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
- Galatians 3:13
Christ 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 2:24
Who 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 2:7
He 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 18:12
The 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 22:2
In 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 22:14
Blessed 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.
- Revelation 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.