ΞΎΛΟΝ: ξύλον, -ου, τό, [ [in LXX chiefly for עֵץ;] ] 1. . wood: I Co 3:12, Re 18:12.
2. . a piece of wood, hence, anything made of wood, as, (a) . a cudgel, staff: pl., Mt 26:47, 55, Mk 14:43, 48, Lk 22:52; (b) . stocks, for confining the feet (Jb 33:11, סַד): Ac 16:24; (c) . a beam to which malefactors were bound (late Gk.), in LXX, of a gibbet (De 21:22, 23), in NT, of the Cross: Ac 5:30 10:39 13:29, Ga 3:13, I Pe 2:24.
3. . In late writers (v. MM, xvii), a tree (Ge 1:29, Is 14:8, al.): Lk 23:31; ξ. τῆς ζωῆς, Re 2:7 22:2, 14, 19.†