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Lexicon :: Strong's G3586 - xylon

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ξύλον
Transliteration
xylon (Key)
Pronunciation
xoo'-lon
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From another form of the base of ξέστης (G3582)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:37,665

Strong’s Definitions

ξύλον xýlon, xoo'-lon; from another form of the base of G3582; timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance:—staff, stocks, tree, wood.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G3586 in the following manner: tree (10x), staff (5x), wood (3x), stocks (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G3586 in the following manner: tree (10x), staff (5x), wood (3x), stocks (1x).

  1. wood

    1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ξύλον xýlon, xoo'-lon; from another form of the base of G3582; timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance:—staff, stocks, tree, wood.
STRONGS G3586:
ξύλον, ξύλου, τό (from ξύω to scrape, plane), from Homer down; the Sept. for עֵץ;
1. wood: universally, 1 Corinthians 3:12; ξύλον θύϊνον, Revelation 18:12; that which is made of wood, as a beam from which anyone is suspended, a gibbet, a cross (A. V. tree, which see in B. D. American edition), Acts 5:30; Acts 10:39; Acts 13:29; Galatians 3:13; 1 Peter 2:24 (עֵץ, Genesis 40:19; Deuteronomy 21:23; Joshua 10:26; Esther 5:14) — a use not found in the classics (cf. Liddell and Scott, under II. 4). A log or timber with holes in which the feet, bands, neck, of prisoners were inserted and fastened with thongs (Gr. καλόν, ξυλοπεδη, ποδοκάκη, ποδοστράβη, Latinnervus, by which the Latin renders the Hebrew סַד, a fetter, or shackle for the feet, Job (Job 13:27); Job 33:11; cf. Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 458ff; (B. D., under the word )): Acts 16:24 (Herodotus 6, 75; 9, 37; Aristophanes eq. 367, 394, 705); a cudgel, stick, staff: plural, Matthew 26:47, 55; Mark 14:43, 48; Luke 22:52 (Herodotus 2, 63; 4, 180; Demosthenes, p. 645, 15; Polybius 6, 37, 3; Josephus, b. j. 2, 9, 4; Herodian, 7, 7, 4).
2. a tree: Luke 23:31 (Genesis 1:29; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 3:1; Isaiah 14:8, etc.); ξυλος τῆς ζωῆς, see ζωή, 2 b., p. 274{a}.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
1:29; 2:9; 3:1; 40:19
Deuteronomy
21:23
Joshua
10:26
Esther
5:14
Job
13:27; 33:11
Isaiah
14:8
Matthew
26:47; 26:55
Mark
14:43; 14:48
Luke
22:52; 23:31
Acts
5:30; 10:39; 13:29; 16:24
1 Corinthians
3:12
Galatians
3:13
1 Peter
2:24
Revelation
18:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3586 matches the Greek ξύλον (xylon),
which occurs 25 times in 22 verses in 'Gen' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants[fn] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:16 - And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:17 - but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat[fn] of it you shall surely die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[fn] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise,[fn] she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool[fn] of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to Adam he said,
“Because you have listened to the voice of your wife
and have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you,
‘You shall not eat of it,’
cursed is the ground because of you;
in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - Make yourself an ark of gopher wood.[fn] Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:6 - And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”
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