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ξύλον
xýlon · Greek · Strong's G3586 · 20 occurrences
The KJV renders 6 different Hebrew and Greek words as “staff”
What it means
timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance
from another form of the base of G3582 (ξέστης);
How the KJV renders it
staff, stocks, tree, wood
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“staff”
“tree”
Answers that weigh this word
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- Do believers spend eternity in heaven, or on a renewed earth?
- What did Jesus promise the thief on the cross (Luke 23:43)?
Where it appears
20 occurrences in the Greek text, first 18 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 3:12 · N-APN
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
1 Peter 2:24 · N-ASN
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
Acts 5:30 · N-GSN
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 10:39 · N-GSN
We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 13:29 · N-GSN
When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
Acts 16:24 · N-ASN
Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
Galatians 3:13 N-GSNLuke 22:52 N-GPNLuke 23:31 N-DSNMatthew 26:47 N-GPNMatthew 26:55 N-GPNMark 14:43 N-GPNMark 14:48 N-GPNRevelation 2:7 N-GSNRevelation 18:12 N-ASNRevelation 22:2 N-GSNRevelation 22:14 N-ASNRevelation 22:19 N-GSN
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