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στῦλος

stŷlos · G4769 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. pillar, column

    An upright shaft or structure used as a building support

    Examples

    1 Timothy 3:15 but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one should act in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

    Revelation 3:12 ‘The one who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name.

    Revelation 10:1 I saw another strong angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was on his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire;

  2. leader

    (A figurative extension of meaning of στῦλος ‘pillar, column,’) One who is a leader of a group, with the implication of strategic responsibility

    Examples

    Galatians 2:9 and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words
עַמּוּד ʻammûwd · H5982 · pillar, column
Greek στῦλος renders Hebrew עַמּוּד in architectural contexts denoting a literal pillar or supporting post, with shared metaphorical extension to figurative support (e.g. Gal 2:9, 1 Tim 3:15 echoing pillar imagery from OT tabernacle/temple descriptions); the Hebrew term primarily denotes the physical pillar (Exodus tabernacle pillars, temple columns), which the LXX consistently translates with this Greek equivalent.
קֶרֶשׁ qeresh · H7175 · frame, support, deck
Greek στῦλος denotes a vertical support structure (pillar, column) used architecturally or figuratively, whereas Hebrew קֶרֶשׁ specifically denotes a flat structural element (board, plank) used in the tabernacle construction; the cross-linguistic equivalence is limited to contexts where both terms denote structural support components of the tabernacle framework, not a general semantic overlap.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Leader36.7
The noun is used figuratively of a person whose stature and influence sustain a community, as a pillar sustains a building. Paul recounts that James, Cephas, and John “were reputed to be pillars” in the Jerusalem church (Galatians 2:9).
Pillar, column7.45
The noun names a literal, load-bearing structural support. The one who overcomes is promised, “I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore” (Revelation 3:12).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (R G WH (Trin 1 Tim 3:15; Rev 10:1)), more correctly στῦλος (so L T (Tr in Gal 2:9; Rev…
(R G WH (Trin 1 Tim 3:15; Rev 10:1)), more correctly στῦλος (so L T (Tr in Gal 2:9; Rev 3:12)); see Passow (or Liddell and Scott), under the word, at the end (cf. Chandler §§ 274, 275; Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 43), στύλου, ὁ (from Aeschylus and Herodotus down), the Sept. often for עַמּוּד, a pillar, column: στῦλοι πυρός, pillars of fire, i. e. flames rising like columns, Rev 10:1; ποιήσω αὐτόν στῦλον ἐν τῷ ναῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ μου, i. e. (dropping the figure) I will assign him a firm and abiding place in the everlasting kingdom of God, Rev 3:12; used of persons to whose eminence and strength the stability and authority of any institution or organization are due, Gal 2:9 (where cf. Lightfoot); Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 5, 2 [ET] and the note in Gebhardt and Harnack (στῦλοι οἴκων εἰσί παῖδες ἄρσενες, Euripides, Iph. T. 57; examples from (Jewish writings are given by Schoettgen (on Galatians, the passage cited) and from) ecclesiastical writings by Suicer, Thesaurus, ii, p. 1045f; columen reipublicae, Cicero, pro Sest. 8, 19, and often elsewhere in Latin authors); a prop or support: τῆς ἀληθείας, 1 Tim 3:15.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Parts and Areas of Buildings3 occurrencesGuide, Lead1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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