ξύλον, -ου, τό,
[in LXX chiefly for עֵץ;]
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 5:3010:3913:29, 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 2:722:2, 14, 19.†