noun · feminine
hulas
Strong’sG5208
wood, fuel
stem hul-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
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 *;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
forest, woodland, NT+8th c.BC+; ὕλα ἀεργός virgin forest, Refs; τὰ δένδρα καὶ ὕλη fruit-trees and forest-trees, Refs 5th c.BC+; not only of forest-trees, but also of copse, brushwood, undergrowth (compare ὕλημα), directly opposed to to timber-trees, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in plural, Refs 4th c.BC+
II wood cut down, Refs 8th c.BC+; firewood, fuel, Refs 8th c.BC+; brushwood, Refs 5th c.BC+; timber, ὕ. ναυπηγησίμη Refs 5th c.BC+; also, twigs for birds' nests, Refs 4th c.BC+
III the stuff of which a thing is made, material, (perhaps so of wood), Refs 8th c.BC+; rarely of other material, as metal, οἱ παρ᾽ ἄκμονι.. ὕλην ἄψυχον δημιουργοῦντες Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, materials, Refs 6th c.AD+
III.2 in Philosophy, matter, first in Refs 5th c.BC+; defined as τὸ ὑποκείμενον γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς δεκτικόν, Refs; as τὸ ἐζ οὗ γίγνεται, Refs in later philosophical writers, mostly opposed to to the intelligent and formative principle (νοῦς), Refs 4th c.AD+
III.3 matter for a poem or treatise, ὕ. τραγική, ποιητικαὶ ὗλαι, Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἡ ὑποκειμένη ὕ. the subject-matter, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.4 ὕ. ἰατρική materia medica, Dsc.at Title Page; so ὕλη alone, materia medica, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὗλαι τῆς τέχνης Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.4.b ἡ μέση ὕλη the middle range of diet, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III.5 plural, material resources, βασιλικαὶ ὗλαι Refs 1st c.AD+
IV sediment, Refs 5th c.BC+ (ἀφ-, δι-), ὑλώδης Refs; mud, slime, Refs 2nd c.BC+; ὕλῃ, ὕλει, and ἰλυῖ are conjecture for ὕδει in Refs 6th c.BC+
IV.2 matter excreted from the human body, Refs 2nd c.AD+; phlegm, catarrh, PMed. in Refs 3rd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| 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
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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
hulan“forest”objectaccusative singular1×
James 3:5… megeim auchatō. Idou hēlikem purem hēlikan hulan anaptatō;… small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.