Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
wooden
Usage: ξύλινος, -η, -ον (ξύλον) [in LXX chiefly for עֵץ ;] wooden: 2Ti.2:20, Heb.9:20 (cf. Ep. Jer.4:1-31 ff).† (AS)
Xylinos means “of wood” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3585 — kachash (“leanness”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3585 ξύλινος (xulinos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. xulinos (xoo'-lin-os) adj. 1. wooden [from G3586] It has 31 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include wood. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
xulinos (xoo'-lin-os) adj. 1. wooden [from G3586] KJV: of wood Root(s): G3586
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wooden
Usage: ξύλινος, -η, -ον (ξύλον) [in LXX chiefly for עֵץ ;] wooden: 2Ti.2:20, Heb.9:20 (cf. Ep. Jer.4:1-31 ff).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render xulinos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3585 (ξύλινος) appears 30 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
14 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be unclean; whatever wooden vessel, or garment, or skin, or sack it may be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean till evening; and then it shall be clean.
And the earthen vessel which he that has the issue shall happen to touch, shall be broken; and a wooden vessel shall be washed with water, and shall be clean.
And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.
15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
In the first year of the reign of Cyrus, King Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:
And Ezra the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a pulpit of wood which was made for that purpose.
And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girded fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.
First 31 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3585.
And on whatsoever one of their dead bodies shall fall it shall be unclean; whatever wooden vessel, or garment, or skin, or sack it may be, every vessel in which work should be done, shall be dipped in water, and shall be unclean till evening; and then it shall be clean.
And the earthen vessel which he that has the issue shall happen to touch, shall be broken; and a wooden vessel shall be washed with water, and shall be clean.
And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.
Every tithe of the land, both of the seed of the land, and of the fruit of trees, is the Lord’s, holy to the Lord.
And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.
And if he should smite him with an instrument of wood from his hand, whereby he may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.
At that time the Lord said to me, Hew for thyself two stone tables as the first, and come up to me into the mountain, and thou shalt make for thyself an ark of wood.
All thy trees and the fruits of thy land shall the blight consume.
With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but I will make instead of them yokes of iron.
a wooden altar, the height of it three cubits, and the length two cubits, and the breadth two cubits; and it had horns, and the base of it and the sides of it were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table, which is before the face of the Lord.
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron, and of wood, and of stone.
And thou hast been exalted against the Lord God of heaven; and they have brought before thee the vessels of his house, and thou, and thy nobles, and thy mistresses, and thy concubines, have drunk wine out of them; and thou hast praised the gods of gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and wood, and stone, which see not, and which hear not, and know not: and the God in whose hand are thy breath and all thy ways hast thou not glorified.
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
In the first year of the reign of Cyrus, King Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again, where they do sacrifice with continual fire:
And Ezra the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a pulpit of wood which was made for that purpose.
And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girded fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.
and from that which appertaineth unto me to receive for the third part of the seed, and the half of the fruit of the trees, I release it from this day forth, so that they shall not be taken of the land of Judah, nor of the three governments which are added thereunto out of the country of Samaria and Galilee, from this day forth for evermore.
As timber girded and bound together in a building cannot be loosed with shaking: So the heart that is established by advised counsel shall fear at no time.
So when ye be come unto Babylon, ye shall remain there many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations: and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence.
Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves.
Menstruous women and women in childbed eat their sacrifices: by these things ye may know that they are no gods: fear them not.
They can show no mercy to the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
For seeing they be but of wood, and overlaid with silver and gold, it shall be known hereafter that they are false:
Neither can they judge their own cause, nor redress a wrong, being unable: for they are as crows between heaven and earth.
Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.
Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong do take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.
It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods: therefore fear them not.
For as a scarecrow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing: so are their gods of wood, and laid over with silver and gold.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3585, grouped by book.
Xylinos (Strong's G3585) is a Greek word most simply glossed "of wood". xulinos (xoo'-lin-os) adj. 1. wooden [from G3586]
This page currently indexes 31 linked usages for Strong's G3585 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3585 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wood. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 14 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3585, with linked reader references where each row is available.