noun · masculine
stulos
Strong’sG4769
a pillar
stem stul-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 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.
στύλος (T, στῦλος, as in cl.), -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for עַמּוּד, also for קֶרֶשׁ, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4769 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidstoo'-los
properly akin to the base of G2476); a post ("style"), i.e. (figuratively) support
Fromfrom στύω (to stiffen;
King Jamespillar.
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
(feminine at Epidaurus, Refs 4th c.BC+, pillar (={κίων} accusative to Refs 2nd c.AD+, especially as a support or bearing, Refs 5th c.BC+: metaphorically, σ... οἴκων εἰσὶ παῖδες ἄρσενες NT+5th c.BC+
2 σ. πυρός LXX+NT
3 wooden pole, Refs 5th c.BC+; [σκηνῆς] tent-poles, uprights, opposed to διατόναια, Refs 3rd c.BC+; plank, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 stile for writing on waxed tablets; wrongly used in this sense by Greek speakers at Alexandria and in the East accusative to Refs 3rd c.BC+; compare στυλοειδής.
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 | stulos1×στῦλος | stulois2×στῦλοι |
| object accusative | stulon1×στῦλον | stuloin |
| direct address vocative | stulor | stuloir |
| of, belonging to genitive | stulou | stuloiu |
| to, for dative | stulo | stuloi |
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
stulo 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.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
stulos“pillar”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Timothy 3:15… anastreforō, hotinas atō ekklēsas theou zōarōntou, stulos kai hedraiōmem tau alētheiau;… church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
stulon“pillar”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 3:12tos nikarōntos poiami auton stulon en to nao tou theou mu, …… who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God …
stulois“pillars”subjectnominative plural2×
Galatians 2:9… kai Kēfos kai Iōannos, tois dokarōntois stulois arō, dexain dōala mi kai Barnabo …… and John — those reputed to be pillars — gave me and Barnabas the right …
Revelation 10:1… hēlios, kai tois podois autou hōs stulois pureu,… sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.