2001 Translation

XYLA, xyla

Sounds Like: KSEE-lah

Translations: wood, woods, tree, trees, timber, timbers, stick, sticks, log, logs

From the root: ΞΥΛΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to wood in general, or to a piece of wood, a stick, or a log. It can also refer to a living tree, especially one that produces timber. In the provided examples, it is used in the plural to refer to cut wood for building or to trees in a field.

Inflection: Plural, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G3586 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:10, 4:2, 4:5, 5:3, 5:8, 6:2

Codex Sinaiticus

• Genesis — 22:7
• Judges — 9:8, 9:10, 9:12, 9:14, 9:15
• 1 Chronicles — 14:1, 16:33
• 2 Esdras — 12:8
• 1 Maccabees — 14:8
• Psalms — 95:12, 103:16, 148:9
• Proverbs — 26:21
• Ecclesiastes — 2:6, 10:9
• Sirach — 8:3
• Isaiah — 14:8, 30:33, 34:13, 37:19, 44:23, 55:12
• Jeremiah — 5:14, 6:6, 7:18, 26:22
• Joel — 1:12, 1:19
• Haggai — 1:8
• Zechariah — 5:4
• 1 Corinthians — 3:12

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 18:118

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 6:102
• Book 7 — 3:66, 14:335, 14:377
• Book 8 — 2:52, 2:54, 5:141, 7:177, 13:322, 13:338
• Book 9 — 8:164
• Book 11 — 3:60, 4:78
• Book 15 — 8:279

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Five — 1:36

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 14:7, 73:4, 86:6

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 13:1

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 1:6

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 22:3, 22:6, 22:7, 22:9
• Exodus — 9:25, 25:5, 25:12, 35:7, 35:24, 35:33
• Leviticus — 1:7, 1:8, 1:12, 1:17, 3:5, 6:12, 14:45, 26:4
• Numbers — 15:32, 15:33
• Deuteronomy — 19:5
• Judges — 9:8, 9:10, 9:12, 9:14, 9:15
• 1 Samuel — 6:14
• 2 Samuel — 5:11, 24:22
• 1 Kings — 5:6, 5:8, 5:17, 6:32, 10:11, 10:12, 15:22, 17:10
• 2 Kings — 6:4, 12:12, 19:18, 22:6
• 1 Chronicles — 14:1, 16:33, 21:23, 22:4, 22:14, 29:2
• 2 Chronicles — 2:8, 2:9, 2:10, 2:16, 9:10, 9:11, 16:6, 34:11
• Ezra (Alpha) — 4:48, 5:53
• Ezra (Beta) — 3:7, 5:8
• Nehemiah — 2:8
• 1 Maccabees — 14:8
• 2 Maccabees — 1:21
• Psalms — 95:12, 103:16, 148:9
• Psalms of Solomon — 14:2
• Proverbs — 26:21
• Ecclesiastes — 10:9
• Sirach — 8:3
• Isaiah — 14:8, 30:33, 34:13, 37:19, 44:23, 55:12
• Jeremiah — 5:14, 6:6, 7:18, 26:23
• Lamentations — 5:4
• Ezekiel — 17:24, 24:10, 26:12, 31:4, 31:5, 31:9, 31:14, 31:15, 31:16, 34:27, 39:10, 41:25
• Joel — 1:19
• Haggai — 1:8, 2:19
• Zechariah — 5:4

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 4 — 1:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• 1 Corinthians — 3:12

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΞΥΛΟΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΞΟΙΛΟΥ — (of) wood, (of) a tree, (of) a stick, (of) a club, (of) a cross
• ΞΥΛ? — wood, a wood, tree, a tree, timber, a timber, staff, a staff, cross, a cross
• ΞΥΛΑΟΝ — of wood, of a tree, of a stick, of a log, of a timber
• ΞΥΛΑΡΙΑ — small pieces of wood, sticks, kindling, firewood, a small piece of wood, a stick, kindling, firewood
• ΞΥΛΙΝΗ — wooden, made of wood
• ΞΥΛΙΝΟΣ — wooden, made of wood
• ΞΥΛΟ — wood, a tree, a stick, a club, a cross, a staff, a timber
• ΞΥΛΟΙΣ — (to) wood, (to) a tree, (to) timber, (to) a staff, (to) a club, (to) a cross
• ΞΥΛΟΝ — wood, a wood, tree, a tree, timber, a timber, staff, a staff, club, a club, cross, a cross
• ΞΥΛΟΣ — wood, a tree, a staff, a club, a cross, a piece of wood
• ΞΥΛΟΥ — of wood, of a tree, of a stick, of a log, of a club, of a cross, of a staff
• ΞΥΛΩ — (to) wood, (to) a tree, (to) a staff, (to) a club, (to) a cross
• ΞΥΛΩΝ — of wood, of trees, of timber, of a tree, of a piece of wood
• ΤΟΙΣΞΥΛΟΙΣ — to the wood, to the tree, to the timber, to the stick, to the club, to the cross
• ΤΩΝΞΥΛΩΝ — of the wood, of the woods, of the trees, of the timbers, of the sticks

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