Greek noun (feminine) · G5208
ὕλη
hylehoo-lay'
wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.).; wood, timber, fuel; = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hýlē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5208is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5208
a forest, i.e. (by implication) fuel
The King James renders it: matter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hyle is rendered "wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.).; wood, timber, fuel; = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in James, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.James 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
The first use
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
James 3:5ὕλην
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.)., and wood, timber, fuel, and = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| wood, forest, woodland (Thus., Xen., al.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJames 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things… |
| wood, timber, fuel | Tagged as
| WhereJames 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things… |
| = Lat. materia, esp. in Philosophy, matter (Arist. and later writers | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὕλην1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular1N-ASF
James
one use
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- ὕληνhulennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a forest
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.