στύλος
pillar
‘pillar’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G4769 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Revelation. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Revelation
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.
στυλος — transliterated stŷlos — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “pillar.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than half of its appearances fall in Revelation. It first appears in Galatians 2:9. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4769 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 50%
- Galatians 1 verse 25%
- 1 Timothy 1 verse 25%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Johannine 2 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 50%
- Revelation 2 verses · 50%
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: Pillar 2×, Pillars 2×
- American Standard Version: Pillar 2×, Pillars 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pillar 2×, Pillars 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pillar 2×, Pillars 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4769 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4769 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4769 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4769 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 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.
- a pillar
- pillars of fire i.e. flames rising like pillars
- a prop or support
Word origin
Derived from ιστημι (hístēmi) (G2476) — to stand.
From στύω stuō (to stiffen ; properly akin to the base of G2476 ); a post (style) that is (figuratively) support : - pillar.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4769 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στῦλοι stŷloi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Galatians 2:9 | 2 |
| στῦλον stŷlon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 3:12 | 1 |
| στῦλος stŷlos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Timothy 3:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4769, 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
- σθενοω sthenóō G4599 to strengthen
- σταδιον stádion G4712 furlong
- σταμνος stámnos G4713 jar
- στασις stásis G4714 insurrection
- σταυρος staurós G4716 cross
- σταχυς stáchys G4719 ear of grain
- στελλω stéllō G4724 to set
- στενος stenós G4728 narrow
- στερεος stereós G4731 strong
- στηθος stēthos G4738 breast
- στηκω stḗkō G4739 to stand firm
- στηριζω stērízō G4741 to establish
- στοα stoá G4745 portico
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word στυλος appears 138 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 100 verses in 17 books.
- 138
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 100
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 17 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 13:21 στῦλος
- Numbers 3:36 στῦλος
- Deuteronomy 31:15 στῦλος
- Judges 20:40 στῦλος
- 2 Samuel 8:8 στῦλος
- 1 Kings 2:35 στῦλος
- 2 Kings 11:14 στῦλος
- 1 Chronicles 18:8 στῦλος
- 2 Chronicles 3:15 στῦλος
- Ezra 19:12 στῦλος
- Esther 1:6 στῦλος
- Job 9:6 στῦλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4769) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 100. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 13:21 στῦλος Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
- Exodus 13:22 στῦλος the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
- Exodus 14:19 στῦλος The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.
- Exodus 14:24 στῦλος It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.
- Exodus 19:9 στῦλος Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
- Exodus 26:15 στῦλος "You shall make the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Exodus 26:16 στῦλος Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.
- Exodus 26:17 στῦλος There shall be two tenons in each board, joined to one another: thus shall you make for all the boards of the tent.
- Exodus 26:18 στῦλος You shall make the boards for the tent, twenty boards for the south side southward.
- Exodus 26:19 στῦλος You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
- Exodus 26:20 στῦλος For the second side of the tent, on the north side, twenty boards,
- Exodus 26:21 στῦλος and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 26:22 στῦλος For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards.
- Exodus 26:23 στῦλος Two boards shall you make for the corners of the tent in the far part.
- Exodus 26:25 στῦλος There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 26:26 στῦλος "You shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tent,
- Exodus 26:27 στῦλος and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward.
- Exodus 26:28 στῦλος The middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
- Exodus 26:29 στῦλος You shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
- Exodus 26:32 στῦλος You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 26:33 στῦλος You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil: and the veil shall separate the holy place from the most holy for you.
- Exodus 26:37 στῦλος You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:10 στῦλος and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
- Exodus 27:11 στῦλος Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 27:12 στῦλος For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exodus 27:13 στῦλος The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- Exodus 27:14 στῦλος The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:15 στῦλος For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:16 στῦλος For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 27:17 στῦλος All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 33:9 στῦλος It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
- Exodus 33:10 στῦλος All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
- Exodus 35:11 στῦλος the tent, its outer covering, its roof, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;
- Exodus 35:12 στῦλος the ark, and its poles, the mercy seat, the veil of the screen;
- Exodus 37:4 στῦλος He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
- Exodus 37:6 στῦλος He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 37:8 στῦλος one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. He made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends.
- Exodus 37:9 στῦλος The cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
- Exodus 37:10 στῦλος He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
- Exodus 37:12 στῦλος He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
- Exodus 37:13 στῦλος He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.
- Exodus 37:15 στῦλος He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
- Exodus 37:17 στῦλος He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
- Exodus 38:18 στῦλος The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.
- Exodus 38:20 στῦλος All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass.
- Exodus 39:5 στῦλος The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 39:13 στῦλος and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.
- Exodus 39:19 στῦλος They made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
- Exodus 40:18 στῦλος Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised up its pillars.
- Numbers 3:36 στῦλος The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4769) 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.
