stylos · pillar

What it means

stylos (στῦλος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “pillar”.

Column; figuratively, someone or something that holds others up.

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. A post holding up a building; also one who holds up the community.

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

How it is translated

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

• pillar ×2
• pillars ×2

Where it appears

• Galatians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Revelation×2

• Galatians 2:9

  and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were considered to be pillars, gave to me and to Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, so that we should go to the nations and they to the circumcision.

• 1 Timothy 3:15

  but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

• Revelation 3:12

  The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and he will never go out again; and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

• Revelation 10:1

  And I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and the rainbow was over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;