ξύλον
wood
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G3586 appears in the Book of Acts — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 5:30 ξύλου n gen sg neut The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 10:39 ξύλου n gen sg neut We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.
- Acts 13:29 ξύλου n gen sg neut When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.
- Acts 16:24 ξύλον n acc sg neut who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“wood” is the headline sense of the Greek noun ξυλον (xýlon). Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 26:47. The Greek New Testament uses it across 18 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Revelation. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 18-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3586 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 18
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 18 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #622
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 622 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 18 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 28%
- Acts 4 verses 22%
- Matthew 2 verses 11%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 18 distinct verses.
- Gospels 6 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 33%
- Johannine 5 verses · 28%
- Revelation 5 verses · 28%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 11%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Tree 9×, Staves 5×, Wood 3×
- American Standard Version: Tree 9×, Staves 5×, Wood 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tree 10×, Clubs 5×, Wood 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tree 10×, Clubs 5×, Wood 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3586 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3586 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3586 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3586 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- wood
- a tree
Word origin
Derived from ξεστης (xéstēs) (G3582) — pitcher.
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.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3586 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ξύλου xýlou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Acts 5:30 | 8 |
| ξύλον xýlon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 16:24 | 5 |
| ξύλων xýlōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 26:47 | 5 |
| ξύλα xýla | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 3:12 | 1 |
| ξύλῳ xýlō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 23:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3586, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ξυλον appears 275 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 242 verses in 28 books.
- 275
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 242
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:11 ξύλον
- Exodus 7:19 ξύλον
- Leviticus 1:7 ξύλον
- Numbers 15:32 ξύλον
- Deuteronomy 4:28 ξύλον
- Joshua 8:29 ξύλον
- Judges 6:26 ξύλον
- 1 Samuel 6:14 ξύλον
- 2 Samuel 5:11 ξύλον
- 1 Kings 5:13 ξύλον
- 2 Kings 3:19 ξύλον
- 1 Chronicles 14:1 ξύλον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3586) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 242. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:11 ξύλον God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the earth," and it was so.
- Genesis 1:12 ξύλον The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:29 ξύλον God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
- Genesis 2:9 ξύλον Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- Genesis 2:16 ξύλον Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
- Genesis 2:17 ξύλον but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
- Genesis 3:1 ξύλον Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"
- Genesis 3:2 ξύλον The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
- Genesis 3:3 ξύλον but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
- Genesis 3:6 ξύλον When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Genesis 3:8 ξύλον They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:11 ξύλον God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
- Genesis 3:12 ξύλον The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."
- Genesis 3:17 ξύλον To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 3:22 ξύλον Yahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."
- Genesis 3:24 ξύλον So he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
- Genesis 6:14 ξύλον Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Genesis 22:3 ξύλον Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:6 ξύλον Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
- Genesis 22:7 ξύλον Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
- Genesis 22:9 ξύλον They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
- Genesis 40:19 ξύλον Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."
- Exodus 7:19 ξύλον Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
- Exodus 9:25 ξύλον The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.
- Exodus 10:5 ξύλον and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
- Exodus 10:12 ξύλον Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left."
- Exodus 10:15 ξύλον For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 15:25 ξύλον Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh shown him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them;
- Exodus 25:5 ξύλον rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
- Exodus 25:10 ξύλον "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 25:13 ξύλον You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 25:28 ξύλον You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
- Exodus 26:15 ξύλον "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Exodus 26:26 ξύλον "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tent,
- Exodus 27:1 ξύλον "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 27:6 ξύλον You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.
- Exodus 30:1 ξύλον "You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.
- Exodus 30:5 ξύλον You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 31:5 ξύλον and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.
- Exodus 35:7 ξύλον rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,
- Exodus 35:24 ξύλον Everyone who did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering; and everyone, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.
- Exodus 35:33 ξύλον in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
- Leviticus 1:7 ξύλον The sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar, and lay wood in order on the fire;
- Leviticus 1:8 ξύλον and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;
- Leviticus 1:12 ξύλον He shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat. The priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar,
- Leviticus 1:17 ξύλον He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 3:5 ξύλον Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 4:12 ξύλον even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
- Leviticus 6:5 ξύλον or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.
- Leviticus 14:4 ξύλον then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3586) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
