ξύλον

ξύλον, -ου, τό

[in LXX chiefly for עֵץ ;]

1. wood: 1 Kor 3,12, Åb 18,12.

2. a piece of wood, hence, anything made of wood, as,

(a) a cudgel, staff: pl., Matt 26,47, 55, Mark 14,43, 48, Luk 22,52;

(b) stocks, for confining the feet (Job 33,11, סַד) : ApG 16,24

(with) a beam to which malefactors were bound (late Gk.), in LXX, of a gibbet (5 Mos 21,22-23), in NT, of the Cross: ApG 5,30; 10,39; 13,29, Gal 3,13, 1 Pet 2,24.

3. In late writers (see MM, xvii), a tree (1 Mos 1,29, Es 14,8, al.) : Luk 23,31; ξ. τῆς ζωῆς, Åb 2,7; 22,2, 14; 22,19.†