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Lexicon :: Strong's G4769 - stylos

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στῦλος
Transliteration
stylos (Key)
Pronunciation
stoo'-los
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From stuo (to stiffen, properly akin to the base of ἵστημι (G2476))
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:732,1096

Strong’s Definitions

†στῦλος stŷlos, stoo'-los; from στύω stýō (to stiffen; properly akin to the base of G2476); a post ("style"), i.e. (figuratively) support:—pillar.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G4769 in the following manner: pillar (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G4769 in the following manner: pillar (4x).

  1. a pillar

  2. a column

    1. pillars of fire i.e. flames rising like pillars

  3. a prop or support

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†στῦλος stŷlos, stoo'-los; from στύω stýō (to stiffen; properly akin to the base of G2476); a post ("style"), i.e. (figuratively) support:—pillar.
STRONGS G4769:
στῦλος (R G WH (Trin 1 Timothy 3:15; Revelation 10:1)), more correctly στῦλος (so L T (Tr in Galatians 2:9; Revelation 3:12)); see Passow (or Liddell and Scott), under the word, at the end (cf. Chandler §§ 274, 275; Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 43), στύλου, ὁ (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down), the Sept. often for עַמּוּד, a pillar, column: στῦλοι πυρός, pillars of fire, i. e. flames rising like columns, Revelation 10:1; ποιήσω αὐτόν στῦλον ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ μου, i. e. (dropping the figure) I will assign him a firm and abiding place in the everlasting kingdom of God, Revelation 3:12; used of persons to whose eminence and strength the stability and authority of any institution or organization are due, Galatians 2:9 (where cf. Lightfoot); Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 5, 2 [ET] and the note in Gebhardt and Harnack (στῦλοι οἴκων εἰσί παῖδες ἄρσενες, Euripides, Iph. T. 57; examples from (Jewish writings are given by Schoettgen (on Galatians, the passage cited) and from) ecclesiastical writings by Suicer, Thesaurus, ii, p. 1045f; columen reipublicae, Cicero, pro Sest. 8, 19, and often elsewhere in Latin authors); a prop or support: τῆς ἀληθείας, 1 Timothy 3:15.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Galatians
2:9; 2:9
1 Timothy
3:15; 3:15
Revelation
3:12; 3:12; 10:1; 10:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4769 matches the Greek στῦλος (stylos),
which occurs 4 times in 4 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:9 - James, Cephas[fn] and John, those esteemed as pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship when they recognized the grace given to me. They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:15 - if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 3:12 - The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:1 - Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.
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