Original: ξύλον

Transliteration: xýlon

Phonetic: xoo'-lon

Short Definition: Staff

- Original: ξύλον

- Transliteration: Xulon

- Phonetic: xoo'-lon

- Definition:

1. wood

a. that which is made of wood

1. as a beam from which any one is suspended, a gibbet, a cross

2. a log or timber with holes in which the feet, hands, neck of prisoners were inserted and fastened with thongs

3. a fetter, or shackle for the feet

4. a cudgel, stick, staff

2. a tree

- Origin: from another form of the base of G3582

- TDNT entry: 05:37,7

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: From another form of the base of G3582; timber (as fuel or material); by implication a stick club or tree or other wooden article or substance: - staff stocks tree wood.

Cognate: G3585