noun · feminine

hulas

Greekὕλη (hulē)

Strong’sG5208

wood, fuel

stem hul-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

forest1×

What it means

ὕλη, -ης, ἡ

[in LXX: Jb 19:29 (†) 38:40 (סֻכָּה), Ps 68 (69):2 Blא(יָוֵן), Is 10:17 (שָׁמִיר), Wi 11:17 15:13, Si 28:10, II Mac 2:24, IV Mac 1:29 *;]

1. wood, forest, woodland (Thuc., Xen., al.).

2. wood, timber, fuel (Hom., Hdt., Thuc., al.): Ja 3:5 (v. Hort, Ja., 70, 104 f.).

3. = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers; Wi, ll. c.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5208 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhoo-lay'

a forest, i.e. (by implication) fuel

Fromperhaps akin to G3586;

King Jamesmatter.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	hulas	hulais
object accusative	hulan1×ὕλην	hulain
direct address vocative	hular	hulair
of, belonging to genitive	hulau	hulaiu
to, for dative	hula	hulai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hulstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hula is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hulan“forest”objectaccusative singular1×

James 3:5“forest”houtōs kai tas glōssas mikrem melem atō kai megeim auchatō. Idou hēlikem purem hēlikan hulan anaptatō;In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.