ξύλονxýlon
timber (as fuel or material); by implication, a stick, club or tree or other wooden article or substance
Greek (New Testament) · G3586
Meanings
1. wood: 1 Corinthians 3:12, Revelation 18:12.
2. a piece of wood, hence, anything made of wood, as
(a) a cudgel, staff: plural, Matthew 26:47, Matthew 26:55, Mark 14:43, Mark 14:48, Luke 22:52
(b) stocks, for confining the feet (Job 33:11, סַד): Acts 16:24
(c) a beam to which malefactors were bound (late Gk.), in LXX, of a gibbet (Deuteronomy 21:22, Deuteronomy 21:23), in NT, of the Cross: Acts 5:30, Acts 10:39, Acts 13:29, Galatians 3:13, 1 Peter 2:24.
3. In late writers, a tree (Genesis 1:29, Isaiah 14:8, and elsewhere): Luke 23:31; ξ. τῆς ζωῆς, Revelation 2:7, Revelation 22:2, Revelation 22:14, Revelation 22:19.
Same root
- ξέστηςxéstēs · G3582by implication, (of friction) to boil or heat); a vessel (as fashioned or for cooking) (or perhaps by corruption from the Latin sextarius, the sixth of a modius, i.e. about a pint), i.e. (specially), a measure for liquids or solids, (by analogy, a pitcher)
- ξύλινοςxýlinos · G3585wooden
- ξυράωxyráō · G3587to shave or "shear" the hair
- ὕληhýlē · G5208a forest, i.e. (by implication) fuel
Where it appears
Appears 20 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 26:47 And even as Jesus said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a crowd of men armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent by the leading priests and elders of the people.
- Matthew 26:55 Then Jesus said to the crowd, “Am I some dangerous revolutionary, that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me? Why didn’t you arrest me in the Temple? I was there teaching every day.
- Mark 14:43 And immediately, even as Jesus said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a crowd of men armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent by the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders.
- Mark 14:48 Jesus asked them, “Am I some dangerous revolutionary, that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me?
- Luke 22:52 Then Jesus spoke to the leading priests, the captains of the Temple guard, and the elders who had come for him. “Am I some dangerous revolutionary,” he asked, “that you come with swords and clubs to arrest me?
- Luke 23:31 For if these things are done when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.