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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - ξύλον
ξύλον
G3586
Transliteration: xýlon
Pronunciation: xoo'-lon
Definition: staff
- Original: ξύλον - Transliteration: Xulon - Phonetic: xoo'-lon
- Definition:
1. wood
a. that which is made of wood
1. as a beam from which any one is suspended, a gibbet, a cross
2. a log or timber with holes in which the feet, hands, neck of prisoners were inserted and fastened with thongs
3. a fetter, or shackle for the feet
4. a cudgel, stick, staff
2. a tree
- Origin: from another form of the base of G3582" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3582 - TDNT entry: 05:37,7 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter - Strong's: From another form of the base of G3582" class="dictionary-topic-link">G3582; timber (as fuel or material); by implication a stick club or tree or other wooden article or substance: - staff stocks tree wood.