2001 Translation

XYLON, xylon

Sounds Like: KSEE-lon

Translations: wood, a wood, tree, a tree, timber, a timber, staff, a staff, club, a club, cross, a cross

From the root: ΞΥΛΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to wood in various forms. It can mean a living tree, cut timber, a piece of wood used as a staff or club, or even a structure made of wood, such as a cross or gallows. Its meaning is determined by the context in which it is used.

Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative

Strong’s number: G3586 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 8:1, 8:5, 11:6

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:44, 4:3, 4:61, 8:10, 12:8

Codex Sinaiticus

• Numbers — 19:6
• 1 Chronicles — 16:32
• 2 Esdras — 19:25
• Esther — 7:9
• 4 Maccabees — 18:16
• Psalms — 1:3, 104:33
• Proverbs — 3:18
• Ecclesiastes — 2:5, 11:3
• Job — 41:19
• Wisdom — 13:13, 14:1, 14:7
• Sirach — 6:3, 31:7
• Isaiah — 7:2, 40:20, 44:13, 44:14, 56:3
• Jeremiah — 3:9, 7:20, 10:3, 17:8
• Joel — 2:22
• Acts of the Apostles — 16:24
• 1 Peter — 2:24
• Revelation — 18:12, 22:14
• Epistle of Barnabas — 8:5, 11:6, 12:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 4 — 4:80
• Book 11 — 6:246

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 40:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 72:2, 86:1, 86:4, 86:6, 91:2

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 2:2, 12:1, 12:2, 12:3, 12:8

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 8:1

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 4:8

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 1:11, 1:12, 1:29, 2:9, 3:6
• Exodus — 10:5, 15:25
• Leviticus — 14:4, 14:6, 14:49, 14:51, 19:23, 26:20
• Numbers — 19:6
• Deuteronomy — 16:21, 19:5, 20:19, 20:20, 29:17
• 2 Samuel — 21:19, 23:7, 23:21
• 2 Kings — 3:19, 3:25, 6:6
• 1 Chronicles — 16:32, 20:5
• 2 Chronicles — 7:13
• Ezra (Alpha) — 6:31
• Ezra (Beta) — 6:11
• Nehemiah — 9:25
• Esther — 5:14, 7:9
• 4 Maccabees — 18:16
• Psalms — 1:3, 104:33
• Psalms of Solomon — 11:7
• Proverbs — 3:18
• Ecclesiastes — 2:5, 11:3
• Job — 41:18
• Wisdom — 13:13, 14:1, 14:7
• Sirach — 6:3, 34:7
• Isaiah — 7:2, 10:15, 40:20, 44:13, 44:14, 45:20, 56:3
• Jeremiah — 3:9, 7:20, 10:3, 11:19, 17:8, 38:12
• Lamentations — 4:8
• Baruch — 5:8
• Ezekiel — 15:2, 15:3, 15:6, 17:24, 20:28, 20:47, 21:10, 31:8, 47:12
• Joel — 2:22

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 2 — 1:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 16:24
• 1 Peter — 2:24
• Revelation — 18:12, 22:2, 22:14

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
• ΞΥΛΑ — wood, woods, tree, trees, timber, timbers, stick, sticks, log, logs
• 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
• 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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