ξύλον xulon

Greek word for “wood” · Strong’s G3586 · used 20 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

ξύλον, -ου, τό; 1. wood:.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for xulon in context, with how often each is used:

• tree 11
• clubs 4
• wood 3
• clubs? 1
• stocks 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 22 (3), Matthew 26 (2), Mark 14 (2), Luke 22 (1), Luke 23 (1), Acts 5 (1), Acts 10 (1), Acts 13 (1), Acts 16 (1), 1 Corinthians 3 (1)

Forms

• ξύλου 8
• ξύλων 5
• ξύλον 5
• ξύλῳ 1
• ξύλα 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with xulon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• μάχαιρα machaira “sword” 5
• κρεμάω kremaō “to hang” 3
• λῃστής lēstēs “robber/rebel” 3
• ζωή zōē “life” 4
• ἄργυρος arguros “silver” 2
• δώδεκα dōdeka “twelve” 3
• μετά meta “with/after” 5
• πρεσβύτερος presbuteros “elder” 3
• χρυσός chrusos “gold” 2
• τίμιος timios “precious” 2
• ἀρχιερεύς archiereus “high-priest” 3
• συλλαμβάνω sullambanō “to seize/conceive/help” 2

Key verses

The verses using xulon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.