xylon · wood, club

What it means

xylon (ξύλον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “wood, club”.

Wood; a club; a tree, the cross.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The hard substance of trees, used for building and making objects.
2. A piece of wood used as a weapon for striking.
3. A wooden frame to fasten a prisoner's feet.
4. The timber Jesus was hung on.
5. A large plant with a woody trunk; so is called the one that gives life in paradise.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tree ×7
• clubs ×5
• wooden beam ×4
• wood ×3
• stocks ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• Acts×4
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×7

• Matthew 26:47

  And while he was still speaking, look, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and elders of the people.

• Matthew 26:55

  At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to arrest me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.

• Mark 14:43

  And at once, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrives, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the scribes and the elders.

• Mark 14:48

  And Jesus responded and said to them, “As against a robber have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me?

• Luke 22:52

  And Jesus said to those who had come against him, high priests and captains of the temple guard and elders, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

• Luke 23:31

  For if in the green tree they do these things, what will happen in the dry?”

• Acts 5:30

  The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.

• Acts 10:39

  And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; him they even killed by hanging him on a wooden beam.

• Acts 13:29

  And when they had carried out all that had been written about him, they took him down from the wooden beam and laid him in a tomb.

• Acts 16:24

  He, having received such an order, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

• 1 Corinthians 3:12

  Now if anyone builds on the foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

• Galatians 3:13

  The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a wooden beam,

• 1 Peter 2:24

  who himself bore our sins in his body on the wooden beam, so that having died to sins we might live to righteousness; by whose wound you were healed.

• Revelation 2:7

  Whoever has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To the one who conquers I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

• Revelation 18:12

  cargo of gold and silver and precious stone and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and all kinds of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article of most precious wood and bronze and iron and marble,

• Revelation 22:2

  in the middle of its street. And on either side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

• Revelation 22:14

  Happy are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter into the city by the gates.

• Revelation 22:19

  and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written about in this book.

And 2 more times.