Original Word: στῦλος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: stulos
Phonetic Spelling: (stoo'-los)
Short Definition: a pillar
Definition: a pillar, support, column.STRONGS NT 4769: στῦλος

στῦλος (R G WH (Trin 1 Timothy 3:15; Revelation 10:1)), more correctly στῦλος (so L T (Tr in Galatians 2:9; Revelation 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, Revelation 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, Revelation 3:12; used of persons to whose eminence and strength the stability and authority of any institution or organization are due, Galatians 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 Timothy 3:15.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

pillar.

From stuo (to stiffen; properly akin to the base of histemi); a post ("style"), i.e. (figuratively) support -- pillar.

see GREEK histemi

Forms and Transliterations

στήλου στιππύου στυλοι στύλοι στῦλοι στύλοις στυλον στύλον στῦλον στυλος στύλος στῦλος στύλου στύλους στύλω στύλων στυππίον στυππυίνου στυππυίνω στυρακίνην stuloi stulon stulos styloi stýloi stylon stýlon stylos stýlos

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