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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 - Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:12 - The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:9 - The LORD God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life 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 - But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:17 - except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man[fn] and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - “Who told you that you were naked?” the LORD God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - Then the LORD God said, “Look, the human beings[fn] have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:24 - After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:14 - “Build a large boat[fn] from cypress wood[fn] and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:6 - So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, 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 - Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”
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