Hyle means “matter” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5208 — nichoach (“pleasure”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5208 ὕλή (hule) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hule (hoo-lay') n. 1. a forest 2. (by implication) fuel It has 10 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include matter. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
hule (hoo-lay') n. 1. a forest 2. (by implication) fuel [perhaps akin to G3586] KJV: matter See also: G3586
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forest
Usage: ὕλη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX: Job.19:29 (†) Job.38:40 (סֻכָּה), Psa.69:2 B.l א (יָוֵן), Isa.10:17 (שָׁמִיר), Wis.11:17 15:13, Sir.28:10, 2Ma.2:24, 4Ma.1:29 * ;] __1. wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.). __2. wood, timber, fuel (Hom., Hdt., Thuc., al.): Jas.3:5 (see Hort, Ja., 70, 104 f.). __3. = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers; Wis, ll. with).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hule, 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 G5208 (ὕλή) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
For wrath will come upon transgressors; And then shall they know where their substance is.
For they fear in their lairs, And lying in wait couch in the woods.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the variety of the matter,
And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.
For thy Almighty hand, That made the world of matter without form, Wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5208.
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
For wrath will come upon transgressors; And then shall they know where their substance is.
For they fear in their lairs, And lying in wait couch in the woods.
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and he shall sanctify him with burning fire, and it shall devour the wood as grass.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
For considering the infinite number, and the difficulty which they find that desire to look into the narrations of the story, for the variety of the matter,
And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.
For thy Almighty hand, That made the world of matter without form, Wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,
For this man, that of earthly matter maketh brittle vessels and graven images, Knoweth himself to offend above all others.
As the matter of the fire is, so it burneth: And as a man’s strength is, so is his wrath; And according to his riches his anger riseth; And the stronger they are which contend, the more they will be inflamed.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5208, grouped by book.
Hyle (Strong's G5208) is a Greek word most simply glossed "matter". hule (hoo-lay') n. 1. a forest 2. (by implication) fuel
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G5208 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5208 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 matter. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5208, with linked reader references where each row is available.